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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 18-20 and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?
(a) 1 million years.
(b) 30 million years.
(c) 2.5 million years.
(d) 25 million years.

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

3. On what date did humans land on the moon?
(a) June 8, 1969.
(b) July 20, 1969.
(c) August 12, 1969.
(d) February 19, 1969.

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

5. What species does Harari name as the "most durable human species ever" (6)?
(a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Homo rudolfensis.
(c) Homo erectus.
(d) Homo neanderthalensis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?

2. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?

3. In 1700, the world was home to about how many humans?

4. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?

5. If today's human population were weighed on a scale, what would be the combined weight?

(see the answer key)

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