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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what material was the lion-man figure made that was found in the Stadel Cave in Germany?
(a) Jade.
(b) Ivory.
(c) Limestone.
(d) Ebony.

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

3. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?
(a) Subjectivity.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Intra-subjectivity.
(d) Inter-subjectivity.

4. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?
(a) Between 100,000 and 20,000 years ago.
(b) Between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago.
(c) Between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago.
(d) Between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago.

5. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 1,000 BC.
(b) 3,000 BC.
(c) 2,000 BC.
(d) 4,000 BC.

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

7. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?
(a) A republic.
(b) A community of communicators.
(c) A nation.
(d) A cooperation network.

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

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

10. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term human to refer to whom?
(a) All extant members of the genus Homo.
(b) The ancestors of chimpanzees.
(c) Members of the species Homo sapiens.
(d) Creatures with opposable thumbs.

11. What does Harari describe as "insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment"?
(a) Woolly Mammoths.
(b) Homo sapiens.
(c) Troglodytes.
(d) Prehistoric humans.

12. Humans in what two areas evolved into Homo neanderthalensis?
(a) Asia and Eastern Europe.
(b) Europe and West Africa.
(c) North America and South America.
(d) Europe and West Asia.

13. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term Sapiens to refer to whom?
(a) All extant members of the genus Homo.
(b) Creatures with opposable thumbs.
(c) The ancestors of chimpanzees.
(d) Members of the species Homo sapiens.

14. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?
(a) 80 million years ago.
(b) 13.5 billion years ago.
(c) 6.5 billion years ago.
(d) 45 trillion years ago.

15. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?
(a) Monarchies.
(b) Religion.
(c) The merchant class.
(d) A handful of plant species.

Short Answer 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)?

2. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?

3. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?

4. Animals are said to belong to the same species if they are able to take what action?

5. What fact does Harari states "used to be one of history's most closely guarded secrets" (4)?

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