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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. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?
(a) The education system.
(b) The justice system.
(c) The barter system.
(d) The stock market system.

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

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

4. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 9,000 BC.
(b) 4,000 BC.
(c) 3,000 BC.
(d) 5,000 BC.

5. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Subjectivity.
(c) Inter-subjectivity.
(d) Intra-subjectivity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?

2. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?

3. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?

4. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?

5. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?

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