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

2. Voltaire said that "there is no" what, while instructing the listener not to "tell that to" his servant "least he murder" (110) Voltaire in the night?
(a) Basis for social stratification.
(b) Food left.
(c) God.
(d) Justice.

3. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?
(a) The Middle East.
(b) Australia.
(c) South America.
(d) Africa.

4. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?
(a) They settled Australia.
(b) They carved the Stadel lion-man.
(c) They drove the Neanderthals to extinction.
(d) They created thousands of cave etchings.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?

2. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?

3. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?

4. About how long ago did the Agricultural Revolution occur?

5. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?

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