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

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

3. What species does Harari name as the "most durable human species ever" (6)?
(a) Homo erectus.
(b) Homo sapiens.
(c) Homo rudolfensis.
(d) Homo neanderthalensis.

4. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?
(a) To act as the victim's servant for three days.
(b) To have his own bone broken.
(c) To have his eye cast out.
(d) To have his hand cut off.

5. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what material was the lion-man figure made that was found in the Stadel Cave in Germany?

2. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?

3. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?

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

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

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