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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?
(a) To have his hand cut off.
(b) To have his eye cast out.
(c) To act as the victim's servant for three days.
(d) To have his own bone broken.

3. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?
(a) On the Euro-Asian landmass.
(b) On the landmass of the Americas.
(c) On the Austral-Asian landmass.
(d) On the Afro-Asian landmass.

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

5. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?
(a) The Middle East.
(b) South America.
(c) Australia.
(d) Africa.

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

7. 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.

8. Sapiens populated East Africa how long ago?
(a) 2 million years ago.
(b) 150,000 years ago.
(c) 50,000 years ago.
(d) 12 million years ago.

9. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?
(a) Between 1 and 2 million.
(b) Between 250,000 and 750,000.
(c) Between 5 and 6 million.
(d) Between 6 and 8 million.

10. 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 shapes our desires.
(d) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.

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

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

13. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?
(a) Myths.
(b) Danger alert systems.
(c) Legends.
(d) Gods.

14. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 4,000 BC.
(b) 5,000 BC.
(c) 3,000 BC.
(d) 8,000 BC.

15. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?

2. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?

3. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

4. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?

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

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