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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 Smallpox Epidemic.
(b) The Black Death.
(c) Tuberculosis Infection.
(d) The Red Death.

2. According to Harari, what is the correct classification of sensations and emotions?
(a) Reproduction.
(b) Natural selection.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Algorithms.

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

4. What is the single greatest constant in history?
(a) The future is unknown.
(b) Everything changes.
(c) We always learn lessons.
(d) People never change.

5. What Romanian dictator was stunned by someone who booed him during his speech?
(a) Ion Iliescu.
(b) Rene Descartes.
(c) Nicolae Ceausescu.
(d) Tzar Nicholas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three uncontrollable forces of nature Harari believes man has conquered?

2. What historical epoch do we live in today?

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

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

5. What percentage of Americans believe God created humans in their current form?

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