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

2. What is the Problem of Other Minds?

3. What is the single greatest constant in history?

4. What hunter-gatherer society still embraces the principles of animism?

5. Why did the U.S. ban creating three parent babies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of warfare does Harari say could allow small countries and groups to fight superpowers?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is an algorithm?

8. What did Harry Harlow's experiments with monkeys demonstrate?

9. What happened during the Cognitive Revolution?

10. According to Harari, what are the key interests of religion and science respectively?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Harari's concept of intersubjective reality.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the concept of the Problem of Other Minds.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how faulty definitions of religion are the cause of most misunderstandings between science and religion.

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