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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?
(a) 2,000 years.
(b) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(c) 10,000 years.
(d) Tens of thousands of years.

2. What does Harari NOT list as a factor that prevents "people from realising that the order organising our lives exists only in their imagination" (112)?
(a) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(b) The imagined order shapes our desires.
(c) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.
(d) The imagined order is subjective.

3. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?
(a) Chimpanzees.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) Humans.
(d) Homo sapiens.

4. What does Harari describe as "insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment"?
(a) Prehistoric humans.
(b) Woolly Mammoths.
(c) Troglodytes.
(d) Homo sapiens.

5. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 4,000 BC.
(b) 2,000 BC.
(c) 1,000 BC.
(d) 3,000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?

2. Species that have evolved from a common ancestor are grouped together under what heading?

3. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?

4. Harari states that "the most unique feature of Sapiens language" (24) is that it provides its speakers with what?

5. Sapiens populated East Africa how long ago?

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