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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the difference between primary and secondary emotions?
(a) Primary emotions are conscious, secondary emotions are instinctual.
(b) Primary emotions are deliberate, secondary emotions are unconscious.
(c) Primary emotions are tied to instincts, secondary emotions are tied to homeostatic regulation.
(d) Primary emotions are inborn, secondary emotions are personal.

2. When does sleep occur, in molecular terms?
(a) When certain chemicals decrease in the brain.
(b) When REM begins.
(c) When tryptophan is released in the brain.
(d) When serotonin is released in the brain.

3. What subject would Wilson like to see more of in undergraduate education?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Arts.
(c) Sciences.
(d) Humanities.

4. Who influenced Wilson's idea of unified learning?
(a) Van Buren.
(b) Lamarck.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Linnaeus.

5. How does Wilson characterize the current state of knowledge?
(a) Fragmented.
(b) Interconnected.
(c) Irreconcilable.
(d) Unified.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wilson describe the strength of the French Revolution?

2. What effect does Wilson say evolution had?

3. What does science try to integrate, in Wilson's account?

4. What methods did Descartes use in his work?

5. What was it about armies that Wilson was struck by?

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