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

2. Animals are said to belong to the same species if they are able to take what action?
(a) They share the same DNA traits.
(b) They are physically able to mate.
(c) They are able to communicate with one another.
(d) They are able to produce fertile offspring.

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

4. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?
(a) 1498.
(b) 1519.
(c) 1592.
(d) 1501.

5. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?
(a) The Afro-Asian world.
(b) The Andean world.
(c) The Mesoamerican world.
(d) The Aztec world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?

3. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?

4. 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?

5. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?

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