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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Justice.
(b) God.
(c) Basis for social stratification.
(d) Food left.

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

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

4. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?
(a) The Qin dynasty.
(b) The Shang dynasty.
(c) The Sui dynasty.
(d) The Ming dynasty.

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

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

7. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?
(a) On the Afro-Asian landmass.
(b) On the Austral-Asian landmass.
(c) On the landmass of the Americas.
(d) On the Euro-Asian landmass.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?
(a) Topographical information.
(b) Letters.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Geographical information.

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

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. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?

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

4. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?

5. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?

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