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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 object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?
(a) A piece of pottery.
(b) An obelisk.
(c) A human footprint.
(d) A human handprint.

2. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?
(a) 5,000 BC.
(b) 9,000 BC.
(c) 3,500 BC.
(d) 1,000 BC.

3. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?
(a) Commoners.
(b) Gods.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Superior people.

4. During the last million years, there has been an Ice Age how frequently, on average?
(a) Every 100,000 years.
(b) Every 10,000 years.
(c) Every 250,000 years.
(d) Every 50,000 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

3. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?

4. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?

5. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?

(see the answer key)

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