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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. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?
(a) The woolly mammoth.
(b) The saber-toothed tiger.
(c) The diprotodon.
(d) The super kangaroo.

2. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?
(a) 80 million years ago.
(b) 13.5 billion years ago.
(c) 45 trillion years ago.
(d) 6.5 billion years ago.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term Sapiens to refer to whom?

2. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?

3. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?

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

5. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Discuss Harari's suggestions regarding the use of humility when considering human history.

5. What is the author's claim concerning the luxury trap?

6. What examples does the author provide for his claim that societal orders are imagined, rather than objective?

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

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

10. Analyze Harari's use of the term “curtain of silence” (61) within his discussion of our limited understanding of human history.

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