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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. Harari asserts that "The Agricultural Revolution made" what element of the human condition "more important than it had ever been before" (100)?
(a) The future.
(b) The present.
(c) Existentialist ideals.
(d) The past.

2. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 8,000 BC.
(b) 5,000 BC.
(c) 3,000 BC.
(d) 4,000 BC.

3. 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.

4. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?
(a) A cooperation network.
(b) A community of communicators.
(c) A nation.
(d) A republic.

5. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?
(a) Legends.
(b) Gods.
(c) Myths.
(d) Danger alert systems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

2. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?

3. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?

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

5. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the function of a template for collective action within a society?

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

3. How does Harari define the term history?

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

5. What evidence does Harari provide for his conclusion that foragers had been better off than their counterparts living after the dawn of the Agricultural Revolution?

6. What does the author name as the most important step in convincing people to believe a shared myth?

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

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

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

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

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