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

2. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?
(a) Understanding that all cultures embrace a sense of unity.
(b) Understanding that all cultures embrace specific jargon.
(c) Understanding that all cultures embrace a form of power structure.
(d) Understanding that all cultures embrace internal contradictions.

3. Species that have evolved from a common ancestor are grouped together under what heading?
(a) Breed.
(b) Genus.
(c) Family.
(d) Phylum.

4. Various species of humans began "going after large animals" (67) during hunting around how long ago?
(a) 4 million years ago.
(b) 4000 years ago.
(c) 40,000 years ago.
(d) 400,000 years ago.

5. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?
(a) 400,000 years.
(b) 4 million years.
(c) 40,000 years.
(d) 4,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Animals are said to belong to the same species if they are able to take what action?

2. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?

3. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?

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

5. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?

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