1. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?
(a) The colonization of Australia 45,000 years ago.
(b) The colonization of a large number of small and isolated islands to the north of Australia.
(c) The colonization of Antarctica.
(d) The colonization of Africa.

2. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?
(a) Mollie Burkhart.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Louis Pasteur.
(d) Marie Curie.

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

4. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Subjectivity.
(c) Inter-subjectivity.
(d) Intra-subjectivity.

5. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?
(a) 80 million years ago.
(b) 13.5 billion years ago.
(c) 45 trillion years ago.
(d) 6.5 billion years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?

2. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?

3. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

4. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?

5. Around what year did global warming melt the glaciers blocking the way from Alaska to the rest of America?

(see the answer key)

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