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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) A cooperation network.
(b) A nation.
(c) A republic.
(d) A community of communicators.

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?
(a) It resulted in a loss of variety and stimulation in the lives of Homo sapiens.
(b) It robbed Homo sapiens of their leisure time.
(c) It caused great harm to the environment.
(d) It put Homo sapiens at greater risk of starvation and disease.

8. 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 physically able to mate.
(d) They are able to produce fertile offspring.

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

10. For what span of time did the "most durable human species ever" (6) survive?
(a) 10 million years.
(b) 50,000 years.
(c) 12 million years.
(d) 2 million years.

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

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

13. Around what year did global warming melt the glaciers blocking the way from Alaska to the rest of America?
(a) 12,000 BC.
(b) 36,000 BC.
(c) 6,000 BC.
(d) 24,000 BC.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term human to refer to whom?

2. Species that have evolved from a common ancestor are grouped together under what heading?

3. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?

4. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?

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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