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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what material was the lion-man figure made that was found in the Stadel Cave in Germany?
(a) Jade.
(b) Ebony.
(c) Ivory.
(d) Limestone.

2. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?
(a) To have his hand cut off.
(b) To have his eye cast out.
(c) To have his own bone broken.
(d) To act as the victim's servant for three days.

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

4. What species does Harari name as the "most durable human species ever" (6)?
(a) Homo erectus.
(b) Homo neanderthalensis.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Homo rudolfensis.

5. In what millenium does Harari assert that people began to believe that a single order could rule all of humanity?
(a) The Third Millennium BC.
(b) The First Millennium AD.
(c) The Second Millennium BC.
(d) The First Millennium BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?

2. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?

3. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?

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

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

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