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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. In a band of 50 individuals, Harari states that there are how many one-on-one relationships?
(a) 6,230.
(b) 2,220.
(c) 865.
(d) 1,225.

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

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

4. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?
(a) They drove the Neanderthals to extinction.
(b) They created thousands of cave etchings.
(c) They settled Australia.
(d) They carved the Stadel lion-man.

5. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) Asia.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) Africa.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?

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

5. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What call to action does the author make regarding the hierarchy cycle?

2. For what purpose does the author include a table at the start of the text that presents a timeline of human history?

3. What is the author's claim concerning the luxury trap?

4. How does the author emphasize his view that societal orders are imagined?

5. What does the author state about the negative effects of agriculture on the human race?

6. What is the focus of the chapter entitled History's Biggest Fraud?

7. What is the author's definition of the word natural and how does he support his claim?

8. How does the author use the example about insects' wings to make his point about there being no single "natural" (147) way to live?

9. What examples does the author provide for his claim that societal orders are imagined, rather than objective?

10. What chain of events does Harari name as eventually leading to the appearance of the species Homo sapiens?

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