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

2. What did Chinese bureaucrats do to make it seem as though Mao Zedong's agricultural program was working?
(a) They withheld food from the poor to stock warehouses.
(b) They pretended not to know about Mao Zedong's program.
(c) They created imaginary reports about increases in agricultural output.
(d) They bought extra food from foreign governments.

3. Harari states that what is written on a form is far more important than what?
(a) What the bureaucrats say.
(b) The government.
(c) What the people want.
(d) The truth.

4. As a result of the Agricultural Revolution, humans insured the survival and reproduction of domesticated animals while ignoring what?
(a) Population control.
(b) The natural habitat of animals.
(c) The subjective needs of animals.
(d) The means of distribution.

5. Harari compares the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to what revolution?
(a) The American Revolution.
(b) The Information Age.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Agricultural Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. When people follow an algorithmic social structure, how do individuals function in the algorithm?

2. To what does modern science compare the human brain?

3. Harari referred to algorithms as __________.

4. What do traditional monotheists consider the unique spark that homo sapiens possess?

5. Scientists believe emotions are actually ______.

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