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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 resulted in a loss of variety and stimulation in the lives of Homo sapiens.
(c) It put Homo sapiens at greater risk of starvation and disease.
(d) It robbed Homo sapiens of their leisure time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?
(a) Religion.
(b) Monarchies.
(c) The merchant class.
(d) A handful of plant species.

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?

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

3. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?

4. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?

5. What does Harari NOT provide as an example of an imagined order?

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