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

2. The Declaration of Independence declares there are three unalienable rights: life, liberty, and ______?
(a) The right to bear arms.
(b) The pursuit of knowledge.
(c) Freedom of speech.
(d) The pursuit of happiness.

3. In some civilizations, an extension of exploiting animals was followed by treating certain classes of people in what way?
(a) As if they would live forever.
(b) As if they should be raised in cages.
(c) As if they were less important than animals.
(d) As if they were property.

4. 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.

5. What plague wiped out one-quarter of the population of Eurasia in the 1330s?
(a) The Black Death.
(b) The Red Death.
(c) The Smallpox Epidemic.
(d) Tuberculosis Infection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is biological engineering?

2. As a result of the Agricultural Revolution, humans insured the survival and reproduction of domesticated animals while ignoring what?

3. What hunter-gatherer society still embraces the principles of animism?

4. Humans learned to ensure that animals could survive and reproduce but what did humans ignore?

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

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