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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 share the same DNA traits.
(b) They are able to communicate with one another.
(c) They are able to produce fertile offspring.
(d) They are physically able to mate.

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

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

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

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

6. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?
(a) Humans.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Chimpanzees.

7. What is the meaning of the term quipu?
(a) A set of colorful cords used to record mathematical data.
(b) A court of law.
(c) An imagined community.
(d) A full script.

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

9. Harari asserts that "The Agricultural Revolution made" what element of the human condition "more important than it had ever been before" (100)?
(a) The past.
(b) The future.
(c) Existentialist ideals.
(d) The present.

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

11. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?
(a) Ancient Babylonians.
(b) Ancient Incas.
(c) Ancient Mayans.
(d) Ancient Aztecs.

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

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

14. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?
(a) 2,000 years.
(b) 10,000 years.
(c) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(d) Tens of thousands of years.

15. 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 eye cast out.
(b) To have his own bone broken.
(c) To have his hand cut off.
(d) To act as the victim's servant for three days.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?

3. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?

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

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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