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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. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?
(a) Over three million.
(b) Over one million.
(c) Over six million.
(d) Over three million.

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

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

4. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?
(a) Legends.
(b) Danger alert systems.
(c) Gods.
(d) Myths.

5. Humans in what two areas evolved into Homo neanderthalensis?
(a) Asia and Eastern Europe.
(b) Europe and West Africa.
(c) Europe and West Asia.
(d) North America and South America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?

2. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?

3. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?

4. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?

5. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?

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