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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 evolved from apes.
(c) Homo sapiens belong to a family.
(d) Homo sapiens can survive on other planets.

2. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?
(a) Between 100,000 and 20,000 years ago.
(b) Between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago.
(c) Between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago.
(d) Between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago.

3. 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.

4. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?
(a) Between 5 and 8 million.
(b) Between 1 and 3 million.
(c) Between 6 and 12 million.
(d) Between 9 and 10 million.

5. Biologists classify organisms into what?
(a) Types.
(b) Phyla.
(c) Families.
(d) Species.

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

7. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?
(a) To act as the victim's servant for three days.
(b) To have his hand cut off.
(c) To have his own bone broken.
(d) To have his eye cast out.

8. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?
(a) Inter-subjectivity.
(b) Intra-subjectivity.
(c) Subjectivity.
(d) Objectivity.

9. 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) Geographical information.
(b) Numbers.
(c) Letters.
(d) Topographical information.

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

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

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

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

14. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?
(a) Over three million.
(b) Over one million.
(c) Over six million.
(d) Over three million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?

2. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?

3. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?

4. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?

5. The last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?

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