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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 states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?
(a) A peaceful species.
(b) Animals.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Foragers.

2. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?
(a) It caused great harm to the environment.
(b) It put Homo sapiens at greater risk of starvation and disease.
(c) It robbed Homo sapiens of their leisure time.
(d) It resulted in a loss of variety and stimulation in the lives of Homo sapiens.

3. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?
(a) The Age of Innocence.
(b) Pippi Longstocking.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) The Picture of Dorian Gray.

4. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?
(a) 1 million years.
(b) 25 million years.
(c) 30 million years.
(d) 2.5 million years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?

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

3. In a band of 50 individuals, Harari states that there are how many one-on-one relationships?

4. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?

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)?

(see the answer key)

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