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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 event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) The Agricultural Revolution.
(c) The Clean Energy Revolution.
(d) The Cognitive Revolution.

2. In a band of 50 individuals, Harari states that there are how many one-on-one relationships?
(a) 6,230.
(b) 1,225.
(c) 865.
(d) 2,220.

3. Harari asserts that "The Agricultural Revolution made" what element of the human condition "more important than it had ever been before" (100)?
(a) The future.
(b) Existentialist ideals.
(c) The present.
(d) The past.

4. What species does Harari name as the "most durable human species ever" (6)?
(a) Homo erectus.
(b) Homo sapiens.
(c) Homo rudolfensis.
(d) Homo neanderthalensis.

5. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?
(a) Mollie Burkhart.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Marie Curie.
(d) Louis Pasteur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?

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

3. Biologists classify organisms into what?

4. The last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?

5. What does Harari NOT provide as an example of an imagined order?

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