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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. What two types of abilities to humans have?
(a) Cognitive and emotional.
(b) Cognitive and behavioral.
(c) Physical and cognitive.
(d) Physical and sensory.

2. What movement changed the formula for gaining knowledge to Knowledge = Empirical Data x Mathematics?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) Economic Growth.
(c) The Free Market.
(d) The Scientific Revolution.

3. Who are many of the volunteers research professors use in their experiments?
(a) College students.
(b) Colleagues.
(c) Voters.
(d) Family members.

4. Why is research about the healthy mind questionable?
(a) There were too many non-American subjects.
(b) The experiments were faulty.
(c) The sample groups were too small.
(d) Most of the subjects came from a group called WEIRD.

5. Where does Harari say new religions will come from?
(a) Government.
(b) Superhumans.
(c) Research laboratories.
(d) Third world countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dataism worship?

2. If we devote ourselves solely to economic growth, what social structure could suffer?

3. How are modern teenagers acquiring an understanding of capitalism?

4. A Mattersight algorithm uses what information to direct callers to the best customer service person for them?

5. What biometric information did Angelina Jolie use before having a double mastectomy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the modern covenant Harari refers to?

3. What do socialist humanists claim happens when liberal humanists focus only on themselves?

4. What is socialist humanism?

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

6. What did the computer Watson do that changed the perception of artificial intelligence?

7. What experience changed journalist Sally Adee's life after she tested the battlefield simulator in Ohio?

8. How does the "more stuff" credo affect society?

9. According to Harari, what two concepts are being decoupled?

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

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