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

2. What did NOT appear during the Cognitive Revolution?
(a) Legends.
(b) Danger alert systems.
(c) Myths.
(d) Gods.

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

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

5. Humans in what two areas evolved into Homo neanderthalensis?
(a) Asia and Eastern Europe.
(b) North America and South America.
(c) Europe and West Africa.
(d) Europe and West Asia.

Short Answer Questions

1. The last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?

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

3. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?

4. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?

5. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?

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