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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. Why do scientists believe in the mind, or consciousness, but not the soul?
(a) The mind is part of the brain.
(b) If you have a mind, you can think.
(c) The mind is a reality we can see.
(d) The soul has no visible flow.

2. When people follow an algorithmic social structure, how do individuals function in the algorithm?
(a) Each person is a small step in the algorithm.
(b) Individuals are only useful as part of the whole.
(c) Each person is part of a team.
(d) Each person passes on knowledge to others.

3. One core emotion shared by all mammals is ___________.
(a) The survival of the fittest.
(b) The mother-infant bond.
(c) The instinct to run from danger.
(d) Self preservation.

4. In medieval Europe, if people wanted the answer to an important question, they would do which of the following?
(a) Ask their priest.
(b) Read scriptures and use logic.
(c) Read scriptures and pray.
(d) Think about their experiences and read scriptures.

5. Harari claims that humans are going to replace the principles of natural selection with what other principles?
(a) Survival of the Fittest.
(b) Animism.
(c) Artificial Design.
(d) Theism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The expression, "The customer is always right" is an example of humanist _____________.

2. Why does money have value?

3. Animists believe ______.

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

5. For what was Santino the chimpanzee at the Furuvik Zoo known?

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