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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. The last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?
(a) From 90,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.
(b) From 60,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago.
(c) From 75,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.
(d) From 150,000 years ago to 45,000 years ago.

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

3. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?
(a) Eastern Greece.
(b) Northern Rome.
(c) Southern Mesopotamia.
(d) Northern Mesopotamia.

4. 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) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(d) 10,000 years.

5. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?
(a) A peaceful species.
(b) Foragers.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?

2. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?

3. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?

4. Biologists classify organisms into what?

5. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Analyze Harari's use of the term “curtain of silence” (61) within his discussion of our limited understanding of human history.

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

4. Discuss Harari's suggestions regarding the use of humility when considering human history.

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

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

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

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

9. Discuss the significance of the author's focus on fictive language.

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

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