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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. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?
(a) The super kangaroo.
(b) The diprotodon.
(c) The woolly mammoth.
(d) The saber-toothed tiger.

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 cooperation network.
(b) A nation.
(c) A republic.
(d) A community of communicators.

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

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

5. Sapiens populated East Africa how long ago?
(a) 50,000 years ago.
(b) 150,000 years ago.
(c) 2 million years ago.
(d) 12 million years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?

2. For what span of time did the "most durable human species ever" (6) survive?

3. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?

4. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?

5. Species that have evolved from a common ancestor are grouped together under what heading?

(see the answer key)

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