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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 Odd Couple.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Chinese bureaucrats do to make it seem as though Mao Zedong's agricultural program was working?
(a) They pretended not to know about Mao Zedong's program.
(b) They bought extra food from foreign governments.
(c) They created imaginary reports about increases in agricultural output.
(d) They withheld food from the poor to stock warehouses.
2. Why does Harari say American lives are valued more than the lives of the average Afghan?
(a) America is larger than Afghanistan.
(b) More money is invested in the education, health and safety of Americans.
(c) Afghanistan is not as developed as America.
(d) Americans make more money than Afghans.
3. In some civilizations, an extension of exploiting animals was followed by treating certain classes of people in what way?
(a) As if they would live forever.
(b) As if they should be raised in cages.
(c) As if they were less important than animals.
(d) As if they were property.
4. What does Harari believe upsets many people about the theory of evolution?
(a) It denies the existence of the human soul.
(b) People do not believe in the survival of the fittest.
(c) People do not want to believe their ancestors were apes.
(d) Darwin's theory cannot be proven.
5. What is the Problem of Other Minds?
(a) Part of Darwin's theory concerned with the thought processes of chimpanzees.
(b) The inability of science to prove human beings can think original thoughts.
(c) In philosophy, justifying the common sense belief that other people besides yourself have minds capable of thinking or feeling.
(d) The philosophical belief that no one has a mind if it cannot be proved.
Short Answer Questions
1. Harari says that for modern people death is what?
2. What makes the fate of domesticated animals particularly harsh?
3. Without some religion, what would it be impossible to maintain?
4. What common algorithm is used in cooking?
5. Religions have a tendency to turn factual statements into what?
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