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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. Science undermines liberalism and what other humanist belief?
(a) Life has meaning.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Individualism.
(d) Animals are sacred.

2. What did premodern humans believe their lives gained for giving up power?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Simplicity.
(c) Protection.
(d) Freedom.

3. Who famously declared that God is dead?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Benito Mussolini.
(c) Adolph Hitler.
(d) Frederich Nietzsche.

4. What artificial intelligence success did the computer called Deep Blue achieve?
(a) It had the highest score in the world on Pac-Man.
(b) It changed the rules of chess.
(c) It beat the world chess champion.
(d) It learned to play chess with only verbal instructions.

5. What economic and political system adheres to the principles of a free market?
(a) Communism.
(b) Authoritarianism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What life-changing experience did journalist Sally Adee have when she used a battlefield simulator?

2. Harari claims that "life has no script, no playwright, no director, no producer, and ____________."

3. What animals detect the world around them using ecolocation?

4. What non-invasive option are scientists using to learn about stimulating or inhibiting brain activities?

5. What did scientists discover when they opened the proverbial Sapiens black box?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is evolutionary humanism?

2. What quality is most important to business, government, and the military: intelligence or consciousness?

3. What is the "Our Boys Didn't Die in Vain" syndrome?

4. Why was German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized for her comments to a teenage Palestinian refugee girl?

5. With the decoupling of intelligence and consciousness, what is the risk to humans?

6. Where do many research professors find volunteers for their experiments and tests?

7. What do strategy games such as Minecraft and The Settlers of Catan teach teenagers?

8. What experiments are the U.S. military currently studying in relation to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?

9. In the mid-twentieth century, what was the treatment used for individuals with epilepsy when all other treatments failed?

10. What happened in 1975 that was a blow to the liberalism ideology?

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