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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 Humanist Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Humanism claims that instead of looking to a supreme being or authority to define meaning, people should rely on _______.
(a) Their own feelings and desires.
(b) What society believes is right.
(c) Evolutionary principles.
(d) Scientific advancement.

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

3. Without some religion, what would it be impossible to maintain?
(a) Balanced consciousness.
(b) Personal happiness.
(c) An ethical society.
(d) Large-scale social orders.

4. What historical epoch do we live in today?
(a) Holocene.
(b) Miocene.
(c) Pliocene.
(d) Pleistocene.

5. Humanism is divided into which three branches?
(a) Economic, Scientific, Liberal.
(b) Liberal, Socialist, Evolutionary.
(c) Socialist, Economic, Scientific.
(d) Liberal, Socialist, Economic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Romanian dictator was stunned by someone who booed him during his speech?

3. Ethical judgments and factual statements result in __________.

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

5. How much of our bodily activities are accomplished without conscious feelings?

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