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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?
(a) Between 5 and 8 million.
(b) Between 1 and 3 million.
(c) Between 9 and 10 million.
(d) Between 6 and 12 million.

3. During the last million years, there has been an Ice Age how frequently, on average?
(a) Every 250,000 years.
(b) Every 100,000 years.
(c) Every 10,000 years.
(d) Every 50,000 years.

4. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

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

6. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term Sapiens 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.

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

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

9. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?
(a) 13.5 billion years ago.
(b) 80 million years ago.
(c) 45 trillion years ago.
(d) 6.5 billion years ago.

10. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(b) 10,000 years.
(c) Tens of thousands of years.
(d) 2,000 years.

11. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?
(a) Subjectivity.
(b) Intra-subjectivity.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Inter-subjectivity.

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 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.

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

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

15. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 3,000 BC.
(b) 2,000 BC.
(c) 1,000 BC.
(d) 4,000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?

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

3. How does Harari define elements of society such as prisons and concentration camps?

4. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?

5. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?

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