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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fitness of Human Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Condorcet pioneer?
(a) The development of statistical models for economics.
(b) The notion of innate human rights.
(c) The application of math in social science.
(d) The application of statistics to politics.

2. How are scientific theories constructed and used within the scientific community, in Wilson's account?
(a) They are made to define eternal laws.
(b) They can be discarded if disproved.
(c) They sketch but never define natural phenomena.
(d) They rely on intuition as much as observable results.

3. What do cultures use from the mind, in Wilson's account?
(a) Narratives.
(b) Science.
(c) Myths.
(d) Humanities.

4. How does Wilson characterize the modern definition of dreams?
(a) Mystic connections to real events outside the body.
(b) Visions charged by emotion and reorganized by information in memory.
(c) Psychic returns to the scenes of primal injuries.
(d) Reconstitution of daily experiences in surreal visions.

5. What problem does Wilson identify in Freud's research on dreams?
(a) He didn't test his hypotheses.
(b) He uses mental patients for his experiments.
(c) He experimented with cocaine.
(d) He was monomaniacally focused on childhood sexual trauma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilson say evidence from the natural sciences says about Enlightenment thinkers?

2. How does Wilson explain the ideal scientist's work ethic?

3. Where does the unification of intellectual work have its benefit, in Wilson's account?

4. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?

5. What did Freud focus on, in his investigation of dreams?

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