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

2. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1352 BC.
(b) 1352 AD.
(c) 1776 AD.
(d) 1776 BC.

3. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 2,000 BC.
(b) 3,000 BC.
(c) 1,000 BC.
(d) 4,000 BC.

4. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?
(a) Chimpanzees.
(b) Humans.
(c) Neanderthals.
(d) Homo sapiens.

5. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) Australia.
(b) Africa.
(c) America.
(d) Asia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?

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

3. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

4. 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?

5. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?

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