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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?
(a) Braille.
(b) Latin script.
(c) Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
(d) The Hammurabi Code.

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?
(a) Superior people.
(b) Gods.
(c) Commoners.
(d) Slaves.

3. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 3,000 BC.
(b) 1,000 BC.
(c) 2,000 BC.
(d) 4,000 BC.

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

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) Religion.
(c) Monarchies.
(d) The merchant class.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To what author does Harari allude when stating the author's depiction of "the liberal regimes of nineteenth-century Europe" giving "priority to individual freedom" (165)?

4. Humans in what two areas evolved into Homo neanderthalensis?

5. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?

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