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

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

3. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?
(a) Between 250,000 and 750,000.
(b) Between 6 and 8 million.
(c) Between 5 and 6 million.
(d) Between 1 and 2 million.

4. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Letters.
(c) Geographical information.
(d) Topographical information.

5. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?
(a) 8.
(b) 23.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?

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

5. The last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. How does Harari define the term history?

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 author's claim concerning the luxury trap?

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

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

10. 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?

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