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

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

3. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?
(a) 2,000 years.
(b) 10,000 years.
(c) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(d) Tens of thousands of years.

4. What is the meaning of the term quipu?
(a) A full script.
(b) A set of colorful cords used to record mathematical data.
(c) An imagined community.
(d) A court of law.

5. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?
(a) The Clean Energy Revolution.
(b) The Cognitive Revolution.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Agricultural Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?

2. How does Harari define elements of society such as prisons and concentration camps?

3. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?

4. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?

5. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the significance of the era that occurred on Earth 70,000 years ago?

6. What is Harari's assessment of the opportunities created by sapiens' use of fictive language?

7. For what purpose does Harari make particular points about extinction in the final passages of Chapter Four?

8. 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?

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

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

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