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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. Humans learned to ensure that animals could survive and reproduce but what did humans ignore?
(a) Animal's biomedical algorithm.
(b) Animal's biochemical needs.
(c) Animal's subjective needs.
(d) Animal's objective needs.

2. What makes the fate of domesticated animals particularly harsh?
(a) The way they die.
(b) They can be killed by wild animals.
(c) The way they live.
(d) They do not have shelter.

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

4. Harari claims that humans are going to replace the principles of natural selection with what other principles?
(a) Survival of the Fittest.
(b) Theism.
(c) Artificial Design.
(d) Animism.

5. Instead of fearing asteroids, climate change, or volcanoes, what should we fear, according to the author?
(a) Ourselves.
(b) Domesticated animals.
(c) Birds.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harari compares the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to what revolution?

3. What is the Problem of Other Minds?

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

5. Scientists believe emotions are actually ______.

(see the answer key)

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