2. After considering all the different contexts for ants' communication, how does Wilson describe their form of communication?
(a) As instinctive teamwork.
(b) As released pheromones.
(c) As electrochemical resonance.
(d) As socially conditioned.

3. Where does Wilson propose to test the benefit of consilience?
(a) In religion.
(b) In the history of knowledge.
(c) In epistemology.
(d) In social sciences and humanities.

4. What can biological research do for complexity theory, in Wilson's account?
(a) Demonstrate how the cell is a unified organism.
(b) Demonstrate how layers of complexity interact.
(c) Demonstrate how the cell has adapted to the numerous variables that influence its functions.
(d) Demonstrate how many variables influence a cell's functioning.

5. What claims do philosophers make for the unification of knowledge?
(a) That it can resolve issues the sciences cannot answer.
(b) That it can reduce the need for science.
(c) That it can bring more peace to political conflicts.
(d) That scientific solutions are incomplete without the humanities.

6. What purpose does Wilson say dreams serve?
(a) Telling the conscious self about the doings of its unconscious.
(b) Developing the soul through cathexes.
(c) Improving responses relevant to survival.
(d) Giving the self access to the collective unconscious.

7. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?
(a) Conflict resolution.
(b) International relations.
(c) Urban planning.
(d) Biology and social sciences.

8. What does local positivism fail to distinguish between, in Wilson's narration?
(a) Natural science and social science.
(b) Past and future.
(c) Material and ideal.
(d) Concept and fact.

9. How would you describe the relationship between Descartes' theories and modern science of the brain?
(a) Modern science has centered on the role of doubt in awareness.
(b) Descartes' dualism has been rejected.
(c) The molecular work on the brain has completely surpassed anything Descartes theorized.
(d) Descartes sense of consciousness' abstraction has been embraced by scientists who practice consilience.

10. What is the goal, in Wilson's account, of molecular research on human cells?
(a) Producing organs.
(b) Curing cancer.
(c) Recreating human tissue from cell cultures.
(d) Discovering new life forms.

11. Why have scientific models of the brain failed to explain consciousness?
(a) Because scientists are limited in the experiments they can perform on human beings.
(b) Because models of brain activity do not replicate the sense of 'being there' inside the brain.
(c) Because living and reproducing do not require self-understanding.
(d) Because consciousness is always shifting and cannot be modeled.

12. In Wilson's account, why did the French Revolution fail?
(a) Because of the excesses of tyrants and terrorists.
(b) Because of international fear of the spread of revolution.
(c) Because of the intellectual opposition to the tyranny of the revolution.
(d) Because the efficiency of the military in the Reign of Terror allowed Napoleon's rise.

13. The idea that water was the unifying medium for all nature is the center of which philosophical view?
(a) Science.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Idealism.

14. How does Wilson explain the ideal scientist's work ethic?
(a) Think like whales, work like minnows.
(b) Think like children, work like fathers.
(c) Think like poets, work like bookkeepers.
(d) Think like eagles, work like ants.

15. How do Gnostics and alchemists view snakes?
(a) As symbols of the old order of gods.
(b) As symbols of eternal life.
(c) As symbols of destruction and re-creation.
(d) As symbols of divinity.