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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning To The World: The Storytellers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Education used to focus on educating students. What does education focus on now?
(a) Reducing class sizes.
(b) Increasing teacher salaries.
(c) Understanding literature.
(d) Getting high marks.

2. What percentage of Americans believe God created humans in their current form?
(a) 35%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 46%.

3. Written documents are considered so important they can _____________.
(a) Keep track of historical information.
(b) Force people to change their beliefs.
(c) Have more authority than the government.
(d) Reshape reality to conform to what is written.

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

5. What are the three uncontrollable forces of nature Harari believes man has conquered?
(a) War, plague, obesity.
(b) Plague, war, injustice.
(c) Famine, plague, war.
(d) Famine, weather, war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is biological engineering?

2. During the Agricultural Revolution humans silenced animals and plants. During the Scientific Revolution humans silenced what or whom?

3. Sapiens live in a ___________-layered reality.

4. Which country was the first to recognize animals as sentient beings?

5. In most Semitic languages, what does "Eve" mean?

(see the answer key)

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