View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harari say humans must overcome to be like gods?
(a) Epidemics.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Death.

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

3. What was the first deadly disease Europeans brought to North America?
(a) Black Death.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Measles.
(d) Smallpox.

4. Why do scientists deny the existence of God?
(a) They are not religious.
(b) Science has better answers to difficult questions.
(c) There is no empirical data to prove His existence.
(d) The idea of God is old-fashioned.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Harari say American lives are valued more than the lives of the average Afghan?

2. What does the author claim is more dangerous than gunpowder?

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

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

5. What was Clever Hans the horse able to do?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 266 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample