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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. About how long ago did the Agricultural Revolution occur?
(a) 10,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) 5,000 years ago.
(d) 25,000 years ago.

2. 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?
(a) 9 million years ago.
(b) 2 million years ago.
(c) 6 million years ago.
(d) 30 million 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 human footprint.
(b) An obelisk.
(c) A human handprint.
(d) A piece of pottery.

4. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term human to refer to whom?
(a) All extant members of the genus Homo.
(b) Creatures with opposable thumbs.
(c) Members of the species Homo sapiens.
(d) The ancestors of chimpanzees.

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?
(a) God.
(b) Food left.
(c) Basis for social stratification.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?

3. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?

4. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?

5. What does Harari NOT provide as an example of an imagined order?

(see the answer key)

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