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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Animals are said to belong to the same species if they are able to take what action?
(a) They are able to produce fertile offspring.
(b) They share the same DNA traits.
(c) They are physically able to mate.
(d) They are able to communicate with one another.

2. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Marie Curie.
(c) Louis Pasteur.
(d) Mollie Burkhart.

3. 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?
(a) Letters.
(b) Topographical information.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Geographical information.

4. 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) Members of the species Homo sapiens.
(c) The ancestors of chimpanzees.
(d) Creatures with opposable thumbs.

5. How does Harari define elements of society such as prisons and concentration camps?
(a) Cooperation networks.
(b) Republics.
(c) Phyla.
(d) Nations.

6. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?
(a) Superior people.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Gods.
(d) Commoners.

7. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?
(a) 400,000 years.
(b) 40,000 years.
(c) 4,000 years.
(d) 4 million years.

8. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) Africa.
(b) America.
(c) Australia.
(d) Asia.

9. Harari states that "the most unique feature of Sapiens language" (24) is that it provides its speakers with what?
(a) The ability to speak about fictions.
(b) The ability to use voice intonation.
(c) The ability to communicate about danger.
(d) The ability to solve complex problems.

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

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

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

13. 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) 6 million years ago.
(d) 30 million years ago.

14. Various species of humans began "going after large animals" (67) during hunting around how long ago?
(a) 4000 years ago.
(b) 40,000 years ago.
(c) 400,000 years ago.
(d) 4 million years ago.

15. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?
(a) 60.
(b) 90.
(c) 75.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Sapiens populated East Africa how long ago?

4. For what span of time did the "most durable human species ever" (6) survive?

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?

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