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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III - Homo Sapiens Loses Control: The Ocean of Consciousness.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Harari consider the best reason to learn history?
(a) To avoid the mistakes of the past and think of the future.
(b) To understand how traditions started.
(c) To free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies.
(d) To compare how far humans have come in their development.

3. What pamphlet written by Karl Marx claims the modern world positively requires uncertainty and disturbance?
(a) The Communist Manifesto.
(b) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
(c) The Problem of Other Minds.
(d) Mein Kampf.

4. During the Agricultural Revolution humans silenced animals and plants. During the Scientific Revolution humans silenced what or whom?
(a) Animists.
(b) Historians.
(c) Traditionalists.
(d) God.

5. What technology company is developing life-extending projects?
(a) Samsung.
(b) Google.
(c) Microsoft.
(d) PayPal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first deadly disease Europeans brought to North America?

2. Harari claims that "life has no script, no playwright, no director, no producer, and ____________."

3. How did scientists increase their knowledge of the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain?

4. What ability are humans losing because they constantly check social media and email?

5. What Romanian dictator was stunned by someone who booed him during his speech?

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