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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Education used to focus on educating students. What does education focus on now?

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

3. As a result of the Agricultural Revolution, humans insured the survival and reproduction of domesticated animals while ignoring what?

4. During the Agricultural Revolution humans silenced animals and plants. During the Scientific Revolution humans silenced what or whom?

5. Who was the person that saved thousands of Jews during World War II by providing visas even after he was told not to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did John Stuart Mill describe happiness?

3. Why does Harari say that "Sugar is more dangerous than gunpowder" (15)?

4. How did hunter-gatherers perceive the relationship between humans and animals?

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

6. What strategy do people with no real power use to influence political change?

7. What does Harari refer to as the closest thing to a global constitution?

8. What is the official epoch we live in today? Why does the author suggest the epoch should be called the Anthropocene epoch?

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

10. What are the three ways humans can be upgraded into gods?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is humanism superior to religion and the belief in God?

Essay Topic 2

Harari states that terrorists are weak and they use others to accomplish their desired ends. On what premise does Harari base this claim?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the author's position about why the theory of evolution ignites so much controversy.

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