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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. Why does Harari say American lives are valued more than the lives of the average Afghan?
(a) Afghanistan is not as developed as America.
(b) Americans make more money than Afghans.
(c) More money is invested in the education, health and safety of Americans.
(d) America is larger than Afghanistan.

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

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) Karl Marx.
(b) John Phillips Sousa.
(c) Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
(d) Mao Zedong.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do scientists believe in the mind, or consciousness, but not the soul?

3. What device is the U.S. army developing to improve a soldier's decision-making process?

4. In the sixteenth century, what did salvation peddlers do?

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

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