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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 Storytellers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sapiens live in a ___________-layered reality.
(a) Subjective.
(b) Double.
(c) Three-dimensional.
(d) Triple.

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

3. What are the three uncontrollable forces of nature Harari believes man has conquered?
(a) Plague, war, injustice.
(b) Famine, plague, war.
(c) War, plague, obesity.
(d) Famine, weather, war.

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

5. Animists believe ______.
(a) Animals are subject to human whims.
(b) Humans are superior to all other species.
(c) Animals have no souls.
(d) There is no essential gap separating humans from other animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chinese bureaucrats do to make it seem as though Mao Zedong's agricultural program was working?

2. What culture invented writing and money?

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

4. Eating too little used to kill many people. What kills many people today?

5. Written documents are considered so important they can _____________.

(see the answer key)

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