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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 does Harari say humans must overcome to be like gods?
(a) Epidemics.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) Death.
(d) Poverty.

2. What hunter-gatherer society still embraces the principles of animism?
(a) The Incans.
(b) The Nayaka.
(c) East Africans.
(d) The Navajo.

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

4. Harari claims that humans are going to replace the principles of natural selection with what other principles?
(a) Theism.
(b) Animism.
(c) Artificial Design.
(d) Survival of the Fittest.

5. In some civilizations, an extension of exploiting animals was followed by treating certain classes of people in what way?
(a) As if they were property.
(b) As if they were less important than animals.
(c) As if they would live forever.
(d) As if they should be raised in cages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the U.S. ban creating three parent babies?

2. Animists believe ______.

3. Harari compares the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to what revolution?

4. What does Harari believe upsets many people about the theory of evolution?

5. Harari referred to algorithms as __________.

(see the answer key)

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