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

2. What does Harari consider the best reason to learn history?
(a) To avoid the mistakes of the past and think of the future.
(b) To compare how far humans have come in their development.
(c) To free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies.
(d) To understand how traditions started.

3. What could be considered a new kind of myth?
(a) Scientific theories.
(b) Chinese proverbs.
(c) Humanist theories.
(d) Fundamentalist stories.

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

5. To raise global happiness, what has to be done?
(a) Increase global GDP.
(b) Manipulation of the human biochemistry.
(c) Increase distribution of Ritalin.
(d) Follow the teachings of Buddha.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what modern concept are the living-god pharaohs compared?

3. What does the book's title, Homo Deus, mean?

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

5. What French philosopher believed only humans feel and crave?

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