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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 "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 500.

2. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?
(a) Alice in Wonderland.
(b) Pippi Longstocking.
(c) The Age of Innocence.
(d) The Picture of Dorian Gray.

3. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?
(a) To have his hand cut off.
(b) To have his eye cast out.
(c) To act as the victim's servant for three days.
(d) To have his own bone broken.

4. How does Harari define elements of society such as prisons and concentration camps?
(a) Phyla.
(b) Nations.
(c) Cooperation networks.
(d) Republics.

5. 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) Tens of thousands of years.
(d) Hundreds of thousands of years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?

2. Biologists classify organisms into what?

3. Of what material was the lion-man figure made that was found in the Stadel Cave in Germany?

4. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?

5. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. Harari uses his observation about foraging sapiens versus agricultural sapiens to support what larger claim within the book?

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

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

9. What are two examples of templates for collective action?

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

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