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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of progress does Wilson see in the history of life on earth?
(a) He sees the role of blind chance marring the evolutionary record.
(b) He sees a tendency toward complexity.
(c) He sees a tendency toward adaptation to environment.
(d) He sees a punctuated equilibrium.

2. Whose ideas influenced the formation of the French slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"?
(a) Condorcet.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) de Sade.
(d) Locke.

3. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?
(a) Neutrons.
(b) Neurons.
(c) Axons.
(d) Synapses.

4. What religion was Wilson born into?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Southern Baptism.

5. How has the postmodern fragmentation of knowledge affected consilience, in Wilson's account??
(a) It has created the conditions for unification.
(b) It has generated unprecedented discussions between disciplines.
(c) It has not been useful.
(d) It has opened new fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to complexity theory, what is the result of living on the edge of chaos?

2. What was Wilson's relationship with the term 'Consilience'?

3. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?

4. What event marks the end of the Enlightenment, in Wilson's account?

5. What did Condorcet pioneer?

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