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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What historical epoch do we live in today?
(a) Pliocene.
(b) Pleistocene.
(c) Holocene.
(d) Miocene.
2. What could be considered a new kind of myth?
(a) Fundamentalist stories.
(b) Scientific theories.
(c) Chinese proverbs.
(d) Humanist theories.
3. What global health campaign wiped out smallpox?
(a) Vaccinations.
(b) Aspirin.
(c) Better hygiene.
(d) Antibiotics.
4. Religions have a tendency to turn factual statements into what?
(a) Debatable theory.
(b) Religious dogma.
(c) Confusing morality.
(d) Ethical judgments.
5. Scientists believe emotions are actually ______.
(a) Mystical phenomenon.
(b) Subjective attitudes.
(c) Religious manifestations.
(d) Biochemical algorithms.
6. What does the author claim is more dangerous than gunpowder?
(a) Salt.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Pizza.
(d) Gluten.
7. Writing and money made it possible to _______________.
(a) Start businesses.
(b) Count the number of people.
(c) Sell land.
(d) Start collecting taxes.
8. What do traditional monotheists consider the unique spark that homo sapiens possess?
(a) Eternal souls.
(b) Greater ability to reason.
(c) The ability to communicate.
(d) Exceptional intelligence.
9. According to Harari, what is the correct classification of sensations and emotions?
(a) Reproduction.
(b) Natural selection.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Algorithms.
10. Harari states that what is written on a form is far more important than what?
(a) The truth.
(b) What the people want.
(c) The government.
(d) What the bureaucrats say.
11. For what was Santino the chimpanzee at the Furuvik Zoo known?
(a) Escaping from his cage.
(b) Hiding whenever people were around.
(c) Solving math problems.
(d) Throwing rocks at visitors to the zoo.
12. Why do scientists deny the existence of God?
(a) They are not religious.
(b) There is no empirical data to prove His existence.
(c) The idea of God is old-fashioned.
(d) Science has better answers to difficult questions.
13. Harari says that for modern people death is what?
(a) The unconquerable problem.
(b) The logical end of life.
(c) A metaphysical phenomenon.
(d) A technical problem.
14. What does Harari say serves as the foundations and pillars of human societies?
(a) Religion.
(b) Money.
(c) Stories.
(d) Writing.
15. When did the idea of having green lawns around dwellings begin?
(a) In the early 20th century.
(b) With the invention of tennis.
(c) In the Middle Ages.
(d) In ancient Greece.
Short Answer Questions
1. What hunter-gatherer society still embraces the principles of animism?
2. In the sixteenth century, what did salvation peddlers do?
3. What Romanian dictator was stunned by someone who booed him during his speech?
4. When people follow an algorithmic social structure, how do individuals function in the algorithm?
5. Animists believe ______.
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