Sapiens Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Yuval Noah Harari
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 169 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Sapiens Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Yuval Noah Harari
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?
(a) 70,000 years ago.
(b) 10,000 years ago.
(c) 20,000 years ago.
(d) 40,000 years ago.

2. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?
(a) It resulted in a loss of variety and stimulation in the lives of Homo sapiens.
(b) It put Homo sapiens at greater risk of starvation and disease.
(c) It robbed Homo sapiens of their leisure time.
(d) It caused great harm to the environment.

3. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?
(a) Static.
(b) Recorded for all within the culture to see.
(c) In constant flux.
(d) Understood by all members of the culture.

4. Around what year did global warming melt the glaciers blocking the way from Alaska to the rest of America?
(a) 12,000 BC.
(b) 6,000 BC.
(c) 36,000 BC.
(d) 24,000 BC.

5. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?
(a) The Cognitive Revolution.
(b) The Clean Energy Revolution.
(c) The Agricultural Revolution.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Biologists classify organisms into what?

4. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?

5. The first coins in history were created around what year?

(see the answer key)

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