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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. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?
(a) 10,000 years ago.
(b) 20,000 years ago.
(c) 70,000 years ago.
(d) 40,000 years ago.

2. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?
(a) A community of communicators.
(b) A republic.
(c) A nation.
(d) A cooperation network.

3. What does Harari describe as "insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment"?
(a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Troglodytes.
(c) Prehistoric humans.
(d) Woolly Mammoths.

4. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?
(a) Understood by all members of the culture.
(b) Recorded for all within the culture to see.
(c) In constant flux.
(d) Static.

5. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?
(a) Myths.
(b) Gods.
(c) Danger alert systems.
(d) Legends.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?

3. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?

4. The sum total of money throughout the world, according to Harari, is what?

5. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?

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