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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?
(a) Record-keeping.
(b) Transcription.
(c) Writing.
(d) Double column bookkeeping.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What species does Harari name as the "most durable human species ever" (6)?
(a) Homo erectus.
(b) Homo neanderthalensis.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Homo rudolfensis.

9. The last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?
(a) From 150,000 years ago to 45,000 years ago.
(b) From 75,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.
(c) From 60,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago.
(d) From 90,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.

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

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

12. 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 embedded in the material world.
(b) The imagined order is subjective.
(c) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(d) The imagined order shapes our desires.

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

14. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?
(a) An obelisk.
(b) A piece of pottery.
(c) A human handprint.
(d) A human footprint.

15. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 23.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?

2. Around what year did global warming melt the glaciers blocking the way from Alaska to the rest of America?

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

4. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?

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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