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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. Education used to focus on educating students. What does education focus on now?
(a) Understanding literature.
(b) Reducing class sizes.
(c) Increasing teacher salaries.
(d) Getting high marks.

2. What is the single greatest constant in history?
(a) Everything changes.
(b) The future is unknown.
(c) People never change.
(d) We always learn lessons.

3. Writing and money made it possible to _______________.
(a) Start collecting taxes.
(b) Start businesses.
(c) Sell land.
(d) Count the number of people.

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

5. What makes the fate of domesticated animals particularly harsh?
(a) The way they die.
(b) They do not have shelter.
(c) They can be killed by wild animals.
(d) The way they live.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari referred to algorithms as __________.

2. What Catholic monk instigated the Protestant Reformation?

3. Science deals with facts but cannot make __________.

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

5. To raise global happiness, what has to be done?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of warfare does Harari say could allow small countries and groups to fight superpowers?

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

3. What does Harari refer to as the closest thing to a global constitution?

4. What did Harry Harlow's experiments with monkeys demonstrate?

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

6. What necessities are provided for domesticated animals?

7. What is the third level of reality only humans experience?

8. According to Harari, what is the cause of most misunderstandings between science and religion?

9. How did hunter-gatherers perceive the relationship between humans and animals?

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

(see the answer keys)

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