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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. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?
(a) 700 BC.
(b) 3500 BC.
(c) 1200 BC.
(d) 200 BC.

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

3. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?
(a) Southern Mesopotamia.
(b) Northern Mesopotamia.
(c) Eastern Greece.
(d) Northern Rome.

4. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?
(a) 60.
(b) 75.
(c) 90.
(d) 30.

5. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?
(a) A handful of plant species.
(b) The merchant class.
(c) Monarchies.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?

2. How much money that exists in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?

3. Biologists classify organisms into what?

4. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?

5. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?

(see the answer key)

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