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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 defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?
(a) Transcription.
(b) Writing.
(c) Record-keeping.
(d) Double column bookkeeping.

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

3. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(b) Tens of thousands of years.
(c) 10,000 years.
(d) 2,000 years.

4. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?
(a) 9,000 BC.
(b) 3,500 BC.
(c) 1,000 BC.
(d) 5,000 BC.

5. Animals are said to belong to the same species if they are able to take what action?
(a) They share the same DNA traits.
(b) They are able to produce fertile offspring.
(c) They are able to communicate with one another.
(d) They are physically able to mate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?

2. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?

3. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?

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

5. Harari describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?

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