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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. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?
(a) 10,000 years.
(b) 2,000 years.
(c) Tens of thousands of years.
(d) Hundreds of thousands of years.

2. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?
(a) The colonization of Antarctica.
(b) The colonization of Africa.
(c) The colonization of a large number of small and isolated islands to the north of Australia.
(d) The colonization of Australia 45,000 years ago.

3. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?
(a) A piece of pottery.
(b) A human handprint.
(c) An obelisk.
(d) A human footprint.

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?
(a) Commoners.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Superior people.
(d) Gods.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Biologists classify organisms into what?

3. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?

4. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?

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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