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

2. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?
(a) Between 6 and 8 million.
(b) Between 250,000 and 750,000.
(c) Between 5 and 6 million.
(d) Between 1 and 2 million.

3. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?
(a) A piece of pottery.
(b) A human handprint.
(c) A human footprint.
(d) An obelisk.

4. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(b) 10,000 years.
(c) 2,000 years.
(d) Tens of thousands of years.

5. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?
(a) Alice in Wonderland.
(b) The Picture of Dorian Gray.
(c) Pippi Longstocking.
(d) The Age of Innocence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?

2. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?

3. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?

4. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?

5. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

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