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

2. Sapiens live in a ___________-layered reality.
(a) Double.
(b) Triple.
(c) Three-dimensional.
(d) Subjective.

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

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

5. Writing and money made it possible to _______________.
(a) Start businesses.
(b) Sell land.
(c) Count the number of people.
(d) Start collecting taxes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Harari, what made it possible for Egyptians to build the great pyramids?

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

4. What did Chinese bureaucrats do to make it seem as though Mao Zedong's agricultural program was working?

5. In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh was considered what type of ruler?

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