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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. 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 nation.
(b) A cooperation network.
(c) A republic.
(d) A community of communicators.

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

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

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

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

8. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?
(a) 30 million years.
(b) 1 million years.
(c) 25 million years.
(d) 2.5 million years.

9. Harari describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?
(a) 2 million years ago.
(b) 6 million years ago.
(c) 30 million years ago.
(d) 9 million years ago.

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

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

12. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?
(a) 30.
(b) 90.
(c) 75.
(d) 60.

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

14. What fact does Harari states "used to be one of history's most closely guarded secrets" (4)?
(a) Homo sapiens invented language.
(b) Homo sapiens can survive on other planets.
(c) Homo sapiens evolved from apes.
(d) Homo sapiens belong to a family.

15. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?
(a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Humans.
(c) Chimpanzees.
(d) Neanderthals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Harari asserts that "The Agricultural Revolution made" what element of the human condition "more important than it had ever been before" (100)?

4. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?

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

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