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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 asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) America.
(b) Asia.
(c) Africa.
(d) Australia.

2. Harari states that "the most unique feature of Sapiens language" (24) is that it provides its speakers with what?
(a) The ability to solve complex problems.
(b) The ability to use voice intonation.
(c) The ability to speak about fictions.
(d) The ability to communicate about danger.

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

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

5. Sapiens populated East Africa how long ago?
(a) 12 million years ago.
(b) 150,000 years ago.
(c) 2 million years ago.
(d) 50,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?

2. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

3. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?

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

5. During the last million years, there has been an Ice Age how frequently, on average?

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