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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. Who developed the theory of evolution?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Harry Harlow.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

2. What culture invented writing and money?
(a) Sumerians.
(b) Egyptians.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Siamese.

3. What technology company is developing life-extending projects?
(a) Microsoft.
(b) Samsung.
(c) Google.
(d) PayPal.

4. To test whether or not an entity is real, what does Harari claim needs to be done?
(a) Determine if the entity is effective.
(b) Find out how many people believe in the entity.
(c) Ask yourself if it can suffer.
(d) Trust your own judgment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What written document helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi persecution in France?

2. Chekhov said if there was a gun in Act One, what would happen in Act Three?

3. One core emotion shared by all mammals is ___________.

4. Harari says that for modern people death is what?

5. Why is the theory of relativity accepted but the theory of evolution is rejected?

(see the answer key)

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