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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. Religions have a tendency to turn factual statements into what?

2. What historical epoch do we live in today?

3. What plague wiped out one-quarter of the population of Eurasia in the 1330s?

4. In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh was considered what type of ruler?

5. Harari compares the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to what revolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harari interpret the saying, "God helps those who help themselves"?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the official epoch we live in today? Why does the author suggest the epoch should be called the Anthropocene epoch?

7. What happened during the Cognitive Revolution?

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

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

10. What is the theory of natural selection?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Harari state is the true characteristic human beings possess that sets them apart as superior to other animals?

Essay Topic 2

What does Harari mean when he claims that human beings have given up meaning for power?

Essay Topic 3

Upon what basis do modern scientists dismiss the existence of God and the existence of the human soul?

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