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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. Education used to focus on educating students. What does education focus on now?
(a) Reducing class sizes.
(b) Getting high marks.
(c) Understanding literature.
(d) Increasing teacher salaries.

2. What is the Problem of Other Minds?
(a) The inability of science to prove human beings can think original thoughts.
(b) In philosophy, justifying the common sense belief that other people besides yourself have minds capable of thinking or feeling.
(c) Part of Darwin's theory concerned with the thought processes of chimpanzees.
(d) The philosophical belief that no one has a mind if it cannot be proved.

3. Harari compares the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to what revolution?
(a) The Information Age.
(b) The Agricultural Revolution.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The American Revolution.

4. What French philosopher believed only humans feel and crave?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Rene Descartes.
(d) Denis Diderot.

5. In the sixteenth century, what did salvation peddlers do?
(a) Preached Lutheran values.
(b) Absolved sin.
(c) Sold indulgences.
(d) Opposed the pope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did philosophers and prophets believe would happen if people stopped believing in a great cosmic plan?

2. What does Harari believe upsets many people about the theory of evolution?

3. What Catholic monk instigated the Protestant Reformation?

4. Ethical judgments and factual statements result in __________.

5. What could be considered a new kind of myth?

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