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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. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 1,000 BC.
(b) 2,000 BC.
(c) 4,000 BC.
(d) 3,000 BC.

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

3. What does Harari NOT list as a factor that prevents "people from realising that the order organising our lives exists only in their imagination" (112)?
(a) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(b) The imagined order is subjective.
(c) The imagined order shapes our desires.
(d) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.

4. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?
(a) Danger alert systems.
(b) Legends.
(c) Myths.
(d) Gods.

5. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?
(a) Double column bookkeeping.
(b) Transcription.
(c) Writing.
(d) Record-keeping.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?

4. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Harari define the term history?

9. 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?

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

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