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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 does Harari NOT provide as an example of an imagined order?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) The opioid crisis.
(d) Christianity.

2. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1776 AD.
(b) 1352 AD.
(c) 1352 BC.
(d) 1776 BC.

3. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?
(a) 4,000 years.
(b) 400,000 years.
(c) 40,000 years.
(d) 4 million years.

4. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?
(a) Northern Rome.
(b) Northern Mesopotamia.
(c) Eastern Greece.
(d) Southern Mesopotamia.

5. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(b) Tens of thousands of years.
(c) 2,000 years.
(d) 10,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term Sapiens to refer to whom?

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

3. 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?

4. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?

5. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?

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