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

2. 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 footprint.
(c) An obelisk.
(d) A human handprint.

3. What is the meaning of the term quipu?
(a) A full script.
(b) An imagined community.
(c) A court of law.
(d) A set of colorful cords used to record mathematical data.

4. For what span of time did the "most durable human species ever" (6) survive?
(a) 12 million years.
(b) 10 million years.
(c) 50,000 years.
(d) 2 million years.

5. 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 embedded in the material world.
(c) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(d) The imagined order is subjective.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Harari define elements of society such as prisons and concentration camps?

2. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?

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

4. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?

5. Biologists classify organisms into what?

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