1. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?
(a) A republic.
(b) A nation.
(c) A cooperation network.
(d) A community of communicators.

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

3. Biologists classify organisms into what?
(a) Types.
(b) Families.
(c) Phyla.
(d) Species.

4. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?
(a) The colonization of Antarctica.
(b) The colonization of a large number of small and isolated islands to the north of Australia.
(c) The colonization of Australia 45,000 years ago.
(d) The colonization of Africa.

5. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 4,000 BC.
(b) 3,000 BC.
(c) 8,000 BC.
(d) 5,000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Voltaire said that "there is no" what, while instructing the listener not to "tell that to" his servant "least he murder" (110) Voltaire in the night?

2. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?

3. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?

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

5. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?

(see the answer key)

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