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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term human to refer to whom?
(a) Members of the species Homo sapiens.
(b) All extant members of the genus Homo.
(c) Creatures with opposable thumbs.
(d) The ancestors of chimpanzees.

2. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?
(a) Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
(b) Braille.
(c) Latin script.
(d) The Hammurabi Code.

3. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?
(a) The colonization of a large number of small and isolated islands to the north of Australia.
(b) The colonization of Australia 45,000 years ago.
(c) The colonization of Antarctica.
(d) The colonization of Africa.

4. About how long ago did the Agricultural Revolution occur?
(a) 5,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) 25,000 years ago.
(d) 10,000 years ago.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. For what span of time did the "most durable human species ever" (6) survive?

4. Around what year did global warming melt the glaciers blocking the way from Alaska to the rest of America?

5. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?

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