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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 bought extra food from foreign governments.
(c) They created imaginary reports about increases in agricultural output.
(d) They pretended not to know about Mao Zedong's program.

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

3. What global health campaign wiped out smallpox?
(a) Aspirin.
(b) Better hygiene.
(c) Antibiotics.
(d) Vaccinations.

4. Why does money have value?
(a) Because people believe it has value.
(b) It represents our wealth.
(c) It is the only way to buy things.
(d) It is an exchange of goods.

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

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

7. What written document helped thousands of Jews escape Nazi persecution in France?
(a) Proof of citizenship.
(b) A visa.
(c) A land grant.
(d) A driver's license.

8. What British mathematician developed the Turing Test?
(a) John Mills.
(b) Clever Hans.
(c) Alan Turing.
(d) Charles Darwin.

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

10. During the Agricultural Revolution humans silenced animals and plants. During the Scientific Revolution humans silenced what or whom?
(a) Traditionalists.
(b) Historians.
(c) God.
(d) Animists.

11. Sapiens live in a ___________-layered reality.
(a) Triple.
(b) Three-dimensional.
(c) Subjective.
(d) Double.

12. Why did the U.S. ban creating three parent babies?
(a) Economic impact.
(b) Social implications.
(c) Religious beliefs.
(d) Ethical concerns.

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

14. Religion is interested in order while science is interested in ___________.
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Power.
(c) Advancement.
(d) Technology.

15. Why do scientists believe in the mind, or consciousness, but not the soul?
(a) The soul has no visible flow.
(b) The mind is part of the brain.
(c) The mind is a reality we can see.
(d) If you have a mind, you can think.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the sixteenth century, what did salvation peddlers do?

2. Scientists claim biblical Judaism was not a scripture-based religion, it was a(n) __________.

3. The invention of writing enabled humans to organize societies in what manner?

4. Why does the theory of evolution reject the idea of a human soul?

5. Why does Harari say American lives are valued more than the lives of the average Afghan?

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