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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Religion is a deal, whereas spirituality is ___________.
(a) A personal experience.
(b) An unknown.
(c) A journey.
(d) Undefined.

2. Without some religion, what would it be impossible to maintain?
(a) Personal happiness.
(b) Large-scale social orders.
(c) An ethical society.
(d) Balanced consciousness.

3. What could be considered a new kind of myth?
(a) Fundamentalist stories.
(b) Scientific theories.
(c) Chinese proverbs.
(d) Humanist theories.

4. Who was the person that saved thousands of Jews during World War II by providing visas even after he was told not to?
(a) Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
(b) Mao Zedong.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) John Phillips Sousa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Religions have a tendency to turn factual statements into what?

2. What written document helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi persecution in France?

3. To what modern concept are the living-god pharaohs compared?

4. Why does Harari say American lives are valued more than the lives of the average Afghan?

5. Why do scientists deny the existence of God?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a "three-parent baby"?

2. What culture invented writing and money?

3. What are the two pillars of happiness according to Harari?

4. Why will humans keep striving for something better?

5. Why does the theory of evolution spark such controversy?

6. When Europeans came to the Americas, what caused the deaths of millions of native people?

7. What invention allowed humans to tell longer stories and organize their societies?

8. What is the third level of reality only humans experience?

9. What happened during the Cognitive Revolution?

10. What are some of the ways domesticated farm animals are exploited?

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