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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. Humans in what two areas evolved into Homo neanderthalensis?
(a) North America and South America.
(b) Asia and Eastern Europe.
(c) Europe and West Africa.
(d) Europe and West Asia.

2. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) Australia.
(b) Asia.
(c) America.
(d) Africa.

3. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?
(a) Louis Pasteur.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Marie Curie.
(d) Mollie Burkhart.

4. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 3,000 BC.
(b) 4,000 BC.
(c) 8,000 BC.
(d) 5,000 BC.

5. What does Harari describe as "insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment"?
(a) Woolly Mammoths.
(b) Troglodytes.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Prehistoric humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a band of 50 individuals, Harari states that there are how many one-on-one relationships?

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

3. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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 evidence does Harari provide for his conclusion that foragers had been better off than their counterparts living after the dawn of the Agricultural Revolution?

8. 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?

9. What call to action does the author make regarding the hierarchy cycle?

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

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