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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?
(a) In philosophy.
(b) In the future.
(c) In politics.
(d) In environmental policy.

2. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?
(a) They made correct assumptions about the material world.
(b) They made correct assumptions about the evolution of species.
(c) They made correct assumptions about the presence of dinosaurs.
(d) They made correct assumptions about the nature of divinity.

3. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?
(a) The role of the unconscious.
(b) The role of the self's desire for power.
(c) The role of infant sexual experience.
(d) The role of original traumas.

4. What is reductionism?
(a) The analysis of the interrelation of all the parts of a system or problem.
(b) The study of the context for a system or problem.
(c) The use of abstractions and generalizations to explain phenomena.
(d) The analysis of components of a system or problem.

5. How many cells comprise the brain?
(a) No one knows.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 1 trillion.
(d) 100 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would need to be true before we could establish the goals and progress of evolutionary processes, in Wilson's account?

2. What interpret does Wilson give the myth of Icarus?

3. Where do government policies typically originate, in Wilson's account?

4. What decision was effectively made in human evolution as the brain found its present size?

5. What did Descartes argue for, in Wilson's account?

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