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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. What hunter-gatherer society still embraces the principles of animism?
(a) East Africans.
(b) The Navajo.
(c) The Nayaka.
(d) The Incans.

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

3. Who was the person that saved thousands of Jews during World War II by providing visas even after he was told not to?
(a) Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
(b) Mao Zedong.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) John Phillips Sousa.

4. What culture invented writing and money?
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Sumerians.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Siamese.

5. The invention of writing enabled humans to organize societies in what manner?
(a) In an algorithmic fashion.
(b) In a hierarchical framework.
(c) As a bureaucratic society.
(d) Under commandments given by God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harari say humans must overcome to be like gods?

2. Why do scientists deny the existence of God?

3. Why does Harari say American lives are valued more than the lives of the average Afghan?

4. Instead of fearing asteroids, climate change, or volcanoes, what should we fear, according to the author?

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

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