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

2. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?
(a) The Sui dynasty.
(b) The Shang dynasty.
(c) The Ming dynasty.
(d) The Qin dynasty.

3. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?
(a) They created thousands of cave etchings.
(b) They drove the Neanderthals to extinction.
(c) They settled Australia.
(d) They carved the Stadel lion-man.

4. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?
(a) Writing.
(b) Record-keeping.
(c) Double column bookkeeping.
(d) Transcription.

5. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?
(a) On the Austral-Asian landmass.
(b) On the Afro-Asian landmass.
(c) On the Euro-Asian landmass.
(d) On the landmass of the Americas.

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. Which name of a god is NOT listed among the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon?

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)?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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