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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 sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Cricket.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Croquet.

2. 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.

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

4. What fact does Harari states "used to be one of history's most closely guarded secrets" (4)?
(a) Homo sapiens belong to a family.
(b) Homo sapiens evolved from apes.
(c) Homo sapiens invented language.
(d) Homo sapiens can survive on other planets.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?

2. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?

3. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?

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

5. Which name of a god is NOT listed among the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What evidence does the author provide for his claim that what is beneficial to the species as a whole is not always beneficial to individuals?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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 Harari define the term history?

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