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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. When did the idea of having green lawns around dwellings begin?
(a) In the early 20th century.
(b) In ancient Greece.
(c) In the Middle Ages.
(d) With the invention of tennis.

2. One core emotion shared by all mammals is ___________.
(a) The mother-infant bond.
(b) The instinct to run from danger.
(c) Self preservation.
(d) The survival of the fittest.

3. What plague wiped out one-quarter of the population of Eurasia in the 1330s?
(a) The Smallpox Epidemic.
(b) The Red Death.
(c) The Black Death.
(d) Tuberculosis Infection.

4. Sapiens live in a ___________-layered reality.
(a) Three-dimensional.
(b) Double.
(c) Triple.
(d) Subjective.

5. What historical epoch do we live in today?
(a) Pleistocene.
(b) Pliocene.
(c) Holocene.
(d) Miocene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture invented writing and money?

2. To raise global happiness, what has to be done?

3. According to Harari, what causes many of Africa's present-day problems?

4. What did Chinese bureaucrats do to make it seem as though Mao Zedong's agricultural program was working?

5. What do traditional monotheists consider the unique spark that homo sapiens possess?

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