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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 Odd Couple.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the person that saved thousands of Jews during World War II by providing visas even after he was told not to?
(a) Mao Zedong.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) John Phillips Sousa.
(d) Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

2. When people follow an algorithmic social structure, how do individuals function in the algorithm?
(a) Each person is a small step in the algorithm.
(b) Individuals are only useful as part of the whole.
(c) Each person passes on knowledge to others.
(d) Each person is part of a team.

3. The Declaration of Independence declares there are three unalienable rights: life, liberty, and ______?
(a) The pursuit of knowledge.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) The right to bear arms.
(d) The pursuit of happiness.

4. Harari claims that humans are going to replace the principles of natural selection with what other principles?
(a) Theism.
(b) Survival of the Fittest.
(c) Artificial Design.
(d) Animism.

5. To what modern concept are the living-god pharaohs compared?
(a) Tax collecting.
(b) Agricultural conglomerates.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Personal brands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Religions have a tendency to turn factual statements into what?

2. Why do scientists deny the existence of God?

3. In some civilizations, an extension of exploiting animals was followed by treating certain classes of people in what way?

4. What plague wiped out one-quarter of the population of Eurasia in the 1330s?

5. According to Harari, what is the correct classification of sensations and emotions?

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