View a FREE sample

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

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 resulted in a loss of variety and stimulation in the lives of Homo sapiens.
(c) It put Homo sapiens at greater risk of starvation and disease.
(d) It robbed Homo sapiens of their leisure time.

3. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?
(a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) Humans.
(d) Chimpanzees.

4. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 5,000 BC.
(b) 4,000 BC.
(c) 3,000 BC.
(d) 9,000 BC.

5. 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?
(a) Food left.
(b) Justice.
(c) Basis for social stratification.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?

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

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

4. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 324 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample