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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Biologists classify organisms into what?
(a) Families.
(b) Species.
(c) Types.
(d) Phyla.

3. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?
(a) Unmarked metal ingots.
(b) Paper bills.
(c) Cowry shells.
(d) Wampum.

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

5. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?
(a) 3500 BC.
(b) 1200 BC.
(c) 700 BC.
(d) 200 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?

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

3. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?

4. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?

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

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