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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III - Homo Sapiens Loses Control: The Time Bomb in the Laboratory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Romanian dictator was stunned by someone who booed him during his speech?
(a) Tzar Nicholas.
(b) Rene Descartes.
(c) Nicolae Ceausescu.
(d) Ion Iliescu.

2. What did Daniel Kahneman's cold-water experiment prove?
(a) The existence of two different selves within humans.
(b) Water temperature can change sensory perception.
(c) Humans withdraw from pain.
(d) Humans do not remember painful experiences if it is followed by a reward.

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

4. How did scientists increase their knowledge of the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain?
(a) Experiments involving people with head injuries.
(b) Experiments with epilepsy patients.
(c) Stimulating the brain's hemispheres with electrodes.
(d) Experiments with soldiers with PTSD.

5. What life-changing experience did journalist Sally Adee have when she used a battlefield simulator?
(a) Her brain without self doubt.
(b) An increased ability to learn.
(c) A life-like virtual reality experience.
(d) A change in her personality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Scientists claim biblical Judaism was not a scripture-based religion, it was a(n) __________.

2. Why do scientists deny the existence of God?

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

4. Under the Modern Covenant, humans give up meaning for what?

5. What is the Problem of Other Minds?

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