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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?
(a) 25 million years.
(b) 1 million years.
(c) 30 million years.
(d) 2.5 million years.

3. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?
(a) Aesthetic.
(b) Financial.
(c) Biological.
(d) Material.

4. 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 embedded in the material world.
(b) The imagined order is subjective.
(c) The imagined order shapes our desires.
(d) The imagined order is inter-subjective.

5. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?
(a) The saber-toothed tiger.
(b) The diprotodon.
(c) The super kangaroo.
(d) The woolly mammoth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?

2. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?

3. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?

4. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?

5. What fact does Harari states "used to be one of history's most closely guarded secrets" (4)?

(see the answer key)

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