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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1776 AD.
(b) 1776 BC.
(c) 1352 AD.
(d) 1352 BC.

3. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?
(a) Latin script.
(b) Braille.
(c) Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
(d) The Hammurabi Code.

4. What does Harari NOT provide as an example of an imagined order?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Christianity.
(c) The opioid crisis.
(d) Capitalism.

5. Harari describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?
(a) 9 million years ago.
(b) 2 million years ago.
(c) 30 million years ago.
(d) 6 million years ago.

6. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 4,000.

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

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

9. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?
(a) The super kangaroo.
(b) The diprotodon.
(c) The saber-toothed tiger.
(d) The woolly mammoth.

10. 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) Basis for social stratification.
(b) Food left.
(c) God.
(d) Justice.

11. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?
(a) Northern Mesopotamia.
(b) Southern Mesopotamia.
(c) Northern Rome.
(d) Eastern Greece.

12. About how long ago did the Agricultural Revolution occur?
(a) 25,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) 10,000 years ago.
(d) 5,000 years ago.

13. What sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?
(a) Cricket.
(b) Croquet.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Basketball.

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

15. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?
(a) The colonization of Africa.
(b) The colonization of Antarctica.
(c) The colonization of Australia 45,000 years ago.
(d) The colonization of a large number of small and isolated islands to the north of Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?

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

3. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?

4. Of what material was the lion-man figure made that was found in the Stadel Cave in Germany?

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

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