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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning To The World: The Storytellers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three uncontrollable forces of nature Harari believes man has conquered?
(a) War, plague, obesity.
(b) Famine, plague, war.
(c) Plague, war, injustice.
(d) Famine, weather, war.

2. As a result of the Agricultural Revolution, humans insured the survival and reproduction of domesticated animals while ignoring what?
(a) The subjective needs of animals.
(b) Population control.
(c) The means of distribution.
(d) The natural habitat of animals.

3. When people follow an algorithmic social structure, how do individuals function in the algorithm?
(a) Each person passes on knowledge to others.
(b) Individuals are only useful as part of the whole.
(c) Each person is a small step in the algorithm.
(d) Each person is part of a team.

4. What culture invented writing and money?
(a) Greeks.
(b) Sumerians.
(c) Egyptians.
(d) Siamese.

5. To what modern concept are the living-god pharaohs compared?
(a) Agricultural conglomerates.
(b) Personal brands.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Tax collecting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plague wiped out one-quarter of the population of Eurasia in the 1330s?

2. In some civilizations, an extension of exploiting animals was followed by treating certain classes of people in what way?

3. What was the first deadly disease Europeans brought to North America?

4. Which country was the first to recognize animals as sentient beings?

5. What British mathematician developed the Turing Test?

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