2. Where does postmodernism fail to accord with science, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) In describing the arts as strictly cultural.
(b) In describing the brain as chaotic.
(c) In refusing to accept statistical modeling of individual behavior.
(d) In rooting creativity in social behavior.

3. What are epigenetic rules?
(a) The process of selecting which genes are most desirable in an environment.
(b) The language in which culture expresses itself.
(c) Influences that affect the expression of genes.
(d) The cultural effect on genetic expression.

4. What is the social cost of violating the incest taboo?
(a) Legal punishment.
(b) Unfit offspring.
(c) Disenfranchisement.
(d) Failure to adapt and survive.

5. How do nurturists see the evolution of culture?
(a) As a result of genetics.
(b) As a result of environment.
(c) As result of language.
(d) As a complex interplay of environment and language.

6. Why does Edmund Wilson say that human existence in the future will depend on ethics?
(a) Because empathy will prevent exploitation.
(b) Because people will only work together once they can frame the problems.
(c) Because evolution favors contract formation.
(d) Because the alternative to self-extinction is preserving the others around the self.

7. What do modern technologies give humans the ability to choose?
(a) The genetic superiority of a race.
(b) The color of children's skin.
(c) The shape of their children's heads.
(d) The direction of human evolution.

8. How much will sea levels theoretically rise if the ice caps melt?
(a) 90 cm.
(b) 120 cm.
(c) 60 cm.
(d) 30 cm.

9. What evolution creates culture?
(a) Symbolic language.
(b) Genetics.
(c) Theories of representation.
(d) Environment.

10. What is the weakness of the current era of economics, in Edmund Wilson's account?
(a) It cannot predict all human behaviors.
(b) It relies on too few variables.
(c) It is too focused on the micro-analysis.
(d) It is grounded in untenable assumptions.

11. What does Edmund Wilson say the arts ultimately create?
(a) Religion.
(b) Consilience.
(c) Rituals and consistency.
(d) Science.

12. What does Edmund Wilson say cultures are made of?
(a) The highest expressions of symbolic language in art.
(b) Groups of language users.
(c) Linked compositions of myths and symbols.
(d) Genetic pools.

13. How, in Edmund Wilson's account, was moral reasoning affected by natural science?
(a) Natural laws clarified the location of the moral sense.
(b) Natural laws helped establish social laws.
(c) Natural laws dispelled taboos.
(d) Natural law created natural rights.

14. What is the traditional view of art?
(a) That it has no end or purpose except in itself.
(b) That it developed when language developed.
(c) That it evolved with the brain's genes.
(d) That it is the latest biological development.

15. Which ocean is still experiencing increasing yields?
(a) Southern Ocean.
(b) Pacific Ocean.
(c) Indian Ocean.
(d) Atlantic Ocean.