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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1776 BC.
(b) 1776 AD.
(c) 1352 AD.
(d) 1352 BC.
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?
(a) Basis for social stratification.
(b) Justice.
(c) Food left.
(d) God.
3. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(b) 10,000 years.
(c) 2,000 years.
(d) Tens of thousands of years.
4. Around what year did global warming melt the glaciers blocking the way from Alaska to the rest of America?
(a) 36,000 BC.
(b) 12,000 BC.
(c) 24,000 BC.
(d) 6,000 BC.
5. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?
(a) On the landmass of the Americas.
(b) On the Euro-Asian landmass.
(c) On the Afro-Asian landmass.
(d) On the Austral-Asian landmass.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Harari NOT provide as an example of an imagined order?
2. What species does Harari name as the "most durable human species ever" (6)?
3. 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?
4. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?
5. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what purpose does the author include a table at the start of the text that presents a timeline of human history?
2. What is the function of a template for collective action within a society?
3. What is the author's definition of the word natural and how does he support his claim?
4. What is the focus of the chapter entitled History's Biggest Fraud?
5. What is the author's claim concerning the luxury trap?
6. What examples does the author provide for his claim that societal orders are imagined, rather than objective?
7. Harari uses his observation about foraging sapiens versus agricultural sapiens to support what larger claim within the book?
8. What are two examples of templates for collective action?
9. What types of examples does Harari provide when he discusses concepts that help to structure order and cooperation, but do not actually exist in tangible form?
10. Analyze Harari's use of the term “curtain of silence” (61) within his discussion of our limited understanding of human history.
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