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

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

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

4. What is the Problem of Other Minds?
(a) In philosophy, justifying the common sense belief that other people besides yourself have minds capable of thinking or feeling.
(b) The inability of science to prove human beings can think original thoughts.
(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.

5. What did philosophers and prophets believe would happen if people stopped believing in a great cosmic plan?
(a) God would die.
(b) Law and order would vanish.
(c) Religions would cease to exist.
(d) Everyone would go to hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement changed the formula for gaining knowledge to Knowledge = Empirical Data x Mathematics?

2. Why do scientists deny the existence of God?

3. What does Harari claim is necessary for scientific advancements?

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

5. Religion is interested in order while science is interested in ___________.

(see the answer key)

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