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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 last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?
(a) From 90,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.
(b) From 60,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago.
(c) From 75,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.
(d) From 150,000 years ago to 45,000 years ago.

2. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?
(a) 23.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 8.

3. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?
(a) The Sui dynasty.
(b) The Ming dynasty.
(c) The Shang dynasty.
(d) The Qin dynasty.

4. What sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Croquet.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Cricket.

5. 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 past.
(c) The future.
(d) The present.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?

3. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term Sapiens to refer to whom?

4. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?

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

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