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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Various species of humans began "going after large animals" (67) during hunting around how long ago?
(a) 4000 years ago.
(b) 40,000 years ago.
(c) 400,000 years ago.
(d) 4 million years ago.

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

3. 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 subjective.
(c) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.
(d) The imagined order is inter-subjective.

4. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?
(a) The Age of Innocence.
(b) The Picture of Dorian Gray.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) Pippi Longstocking.

5. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?
(a) The Middle East.
(b) Africa.
(c) Australia.
(d) South America.

6. About how long ago did the Agricultural Revolution occur?
(a) 25,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) 5,000 years ago.
(d) 10,000 years ago.

7. The last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?
(a) From 75,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.
(b) From 90,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.
(c) From 60,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago.
(d) From 150,000 years ago to 45,000 years ago.

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

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

10. 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.

11. Which name of a god is NOT listed among the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon?
(a) Marduk.
(b) Enlil.
(c) Murabi.
(d) Anu.

12. 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.

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

14. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?
(a) An obelisk.
(b) A human footprint.
(c) A human handprint.
(d) A piece of pottery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?

2. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?

3. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?

4. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?

5. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?

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