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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. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?
(a) Ancient Mayans.
(b) Ancient Incas.
(c) Ancient Babylonians.
(d) Ancient Aztecs.

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

3. Harari describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?
(a) 30 million years ago.
(b) 6 million years ago.
(c) 9 million years ago.
(d) 2 million years ago.

4. Which name of a god is NOT listed among the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon?
(a) Murabi.
(b) Enlil.
(c) Marduk.
(d) Anu.

5. What sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Croquet.
(d) Cricket.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Andean World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

2. Part Three of Sapiens is entitled "The" what "of Humankind" (162)?

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

4. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

5. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?

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