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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I - Homo Sapiens Conquers the World: The Anthropocene.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harari compares the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to what revolution?
(a) The American Revolution.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) The Agricultural Revolution.
(d) The Information Age.

2. What does the author claim is more dangerous than gunpowder?
(a) Pizza.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Salt.
(d) Gluten.

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

4. What British explorer first landed on the island of Hawaii?
(a) Francisco de Eguia.
(b) Captain James Cook.
(c) Christopher Columbus.
(d) Galileo Galilei.

5. Harari referred to algorithms as __________.
(a) An overrated concept.
(b) The doorway to cyborg engineering.
(c) The new revolution in thinking.
(d) The single most important concept in our world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Problem of Other Minds?

2. Why did the U.S. ban creating three parent babies?

3. What common algorithm is used in cooking?

4. The Declaration of Independence declares there are three unalienable rights: life, liberty, and ______?

5. What technology company is developing life-extending projects?

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