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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. Harari states that what is written on a form is far more important than what?
(a) What the bureaucrats say.
(b) What the people want.
(c) The government.
(d) The truth.

2. What plague wiped out one-quarter of the population of Eurasia in the 1330s?
(a) The Smallpox Epidemic.
(b) The Black Death.
(c) Tuberculosis Infection.
(d) The Red Death.

3. Why is the theory of relativity accepted but the theory of evolution is rejected?
(a) The theory of relativity does not change our religious beliefs.
(b) The theory of evolution cannot be proven.
(c) The theory of relativity is a scientific breakthrough.
(d) The theory of evolution is about animals.

4. In most Semitic languages, what does "Eve" mean?
(a) Woman.
(b) Mother.
(c) Helper.
(d) Snake.

5. What does the book's title, Homo Deus, mean?
(a) Two Humanities.
(b) Immortal Humans.
(c) Same God.
(d) Human God.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the idea of having green lawns around dwellings begin?

2. What do traditional monotheists consider the unique spark that homo sapiens possess?

3. Harari says that for modern people death is what?

4. According to Harari, what made it possible for Egyptians to build the great pyramids?

5. Sapiens live in a ___________-layered reality.

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