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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. What must humans do to compete with non-conscious intelligence?
(a) Have a computer chip implanted in their brains.
(b) Actively upgrade their minds.
(c) Learn sophisticated algorithms.
(d) Pursue medical upgrades to be superhuman.

2. Because inventions have many applications, what two disciplines work together to create a balance?
(a) Science and Socialism.
(b) Religion and Biology.
(c) Technology and Humanism.
(d) Religion and Technology.

3. What did philosophers and prophets believe would happen if people stopped believing in a great cosmic plan?
(a) Religions would cease to exist.
(b) Everyone would go to hell.
(c) Law and order would vanish.
(d) God would die.

4. Under the Modern Covenant, humans give up meaning for what?
(a) Power.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Economic growth.
(d) Wealth.

5. In a free market, what determines whether a product is good or whether it is bad?
(a) The customer.
(b) Economic gains.
(c) Company profits.
(d) Persuasive marketing tactics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is revamping the human mind dangerous?

2. What group of individuals are being held responsible for the potential reversal of the humanist revolution?

3. What two types of abilities to humans have?

4. What kept people in the Middle Ages from making advances in science?

5. What did Daniel Kahneman's cold-water experiment prove?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is socialist humanism?

2. What do strategy games such as Minecraft and The Settlers of Catan teach teenagers?

3. What quality is most important to business, government, and the military: intelligence or consciousness?

4. What experiments are the U.S. military currently studying in relation to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?

5. What happens when everyone begins using the same oracle and believing the same oracle?

6. Where do many research professors find volunteers for their experiments and tests?

7. In the mid-twentieth century, what was the treatment used for individuals with epilepsy when all other treatments failed?

8. What is the modern covenant Harari refers to?

9. What is evolutionary humanism?

10. According to Harari, what two concepts are being decoupled?

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