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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the U.S. ban creating three parent babies?

2. According to Harari, what is the correct classification of sensations and emotions?

3. What is biological engineering?

4. What does the author claim is more dangerous than gunpowder?

5. What does Harari say serves as the foundations and pillars of human societies?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did John Stuart Mill describe happiness?

3. What is an algorithm?

4. When Europeans came to the Americas, what caused the deaths of millions of native people?

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

6. What are the two pillars of happiness according to Harari?

7. Why does the theory of evolution spark such controversy?

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

9. What culture invented writing and money?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why small groups of organized individuals are able to lead large groups of people to achieve a specific outcome.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the concept of the Problem of Other Minds.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the author's position about why the theory of evolution ignites so much controversy.

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