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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of what material was the lion-man figure made that was found in the Stadel Cave in Germany?
(a) Ebony.
(b) Jade.
(c) Limestone.
(d) Ivory.

4. Harari asserts that "The Agricultural Revolution made" what element of the human condition "more important than it had ever been before" (100)?
(a) Existentialist ideals.
(b) The future.
(c) The past.
(d) The present.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the last million years, there has been an Ice Age how frequently, on average?

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

3. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?

4. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?

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

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