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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Humans in what two areas evolved into Homo neanderthalensis?
(a) North America and South America.
(b) Europe and West Asia.
(c) Europe and West Africa.
(d) Asia and Eastern Europe.

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?
(a) Double column bookkeeping.
(b) Transcription.
(c) Record-keeping.
(d) Writing.

8. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?
(a) Ancient Incas.
(b) Ancient Mayans.
(c) Ancient Babylonians.
(d) Ancient Aztecs.

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

15. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 9,000 BC.
(b) 3,000 BC.
(c) 5,000 BC.
(d) 4,000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. About how long ago did the Agricultural Revolution occur?

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

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

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