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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. Various species of humans began "going after large animals" (67) during hunting around how long ago?
(a) 400,000 years ago.
(b) 4 million years ago.
(c) 4000 years ago.
(d) 40,000 years ago.

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

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

4. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?
(a) 80 million years ago.
(b) 45 trillion years ago.
(c) 6.5 billion years ago.
(d) 13.5 billion years ago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What species does Harari name as the "most durable human species ever" (6)?

2. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?

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

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

5. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?

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