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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?
(a) 40,000 years.
(b) 4,000 years.
(c) 4 million years.
(d) 400,000 years.

4. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?
(a) 1,000 BC.
(b) 3,500 BC.
(c) 9,000 BC.
(d) 5,000 BC.

5. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?
(a) 10,000 years ago.
(b) 20,000 years ago.
(c) 70,000 years ago.
(d) 40,000 years ago.

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

7. 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 is embedded in the material world.
(b) The imagined order is subjective.
(c) The imagined order shapes our desires.
(d) The imagined order is inter-subjective.

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

9. What species does Harari name as the "most durable human species ever" (6)?
(a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Homo rudolfensis.
(c) Homo erectus.
(d) Homo neanderthalensis.

10. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?
(a) Monarchies.
(b) The merchant class.
(c) A handful of plant species.
(d) Religion.

11. 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) Letters.
(c) Topographical information.
(d) Numbers.

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

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

14. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?
(a) Louis Pasteur.
(b) Mollie Burkhart.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Marie Curie.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harari states that "the most unique feature of Sapiens language" (24) is that it provides its speakers with what?

3. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?

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

5. During the last million years, there has been an Ice Age how frequently, on average?

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