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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what was Santino the chimpanzee at the Furuvik Zoo known?
(a) Hiding whenever people were around.
(b) Throwing rocks at visitors to the zoo.
(c) Solving math problems.
(d) Escaping from his cage.

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

3. What plague wiped out one-quarter of the population of Eurasia in the 1330s?
(a) The Smallpox Epidemic.
(b) The Red Death.
(c) Tuberculosis Infection.
(d) The Black Death.

4. One core emotion shared by all mammals is ___________.
(a) The instinct to run from danger.
(b) The survival of the fittest.
(c) The mother-infant bond.
(d) Self preservation.

5. What common algorithm is used in cooking?
(a) A recipe.
(b) The temperature.
(c) Measuring.
(d) The sequence of ingredients.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Declaration of Independence declares there are three unalienable rights: life, liberty, and ______?

2. Harari claims that humans are going to replace the principles of natural selection with what other principles?

3. What global health campaign wiped out smallpox?

4. Humans learned to ensure that animals could survive and reproduce but what did humans ignore?

5. Who was the person that saved thousands of Jews during World War II by providing visas even after he was told not to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the ways domesticated farm animals are exploited?

2. What invention allowed humans to tell longer stories and organize their societies?

3. What is an algorithm?

4. What is a "three-parent baby"?

5. How did John Stuart Mill describe happiness?

6. According to Harari, what are the key interests of religion and science respectively?

7. The author makes a reference to a [Anton] Chekhov's law. What is the law and what does it mean?

8. What is the history that influences people to have a lawn in front of their houses?

9. What happened during the Cognitive Revolution?

10. Why does Harari say human beings have overcome famine, plague, and war?

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