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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) Writing.
(b) Transcription.
(c) Record-keeping.
(d) Double column bookkeeping.

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

3. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 3,000 BC.
(b) 9,000 BC.
(c) 5,000 BC.
(d) 4,000 BC.

4. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?
(a) They settled Australia.
(b) They drove the Neanderthals to extinction.
(c) They created thousands of cave etchings.
(d) They carved the Stadel lion-man.

5. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?
(a) Between 1 and 2 million.
(b) Between 250,000 and 750,000.
(c) Between 5 and 6 million.
(d) Between 6 and 8 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which name of a god is NOT listed among the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon?

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

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

4. What fact does Harari states "used to be one of history's most closely guarded secrets" (4)?

5. Voltaire said that "there is no" what, while instructing the listener not to "tell that to" his servant "least he murder" (110) Voltaire in the night?

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