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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. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1352 BC.
(b) 1352 AD.
(c) 1776 AD.
(d) 1776 BC.

2. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?
(a) Transcription.
(b) Writing.
(c) Record-keeping.
(d) Double column bookkeeping.

3. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?
(a) Financial.
(b) Material.
(c) Biological.
(d) Aesthetic.

4. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Letters.
(c) Geographical information.
(d) Topographical information.

5. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?
(a) 23.
(b) 8.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Humans in what two areas evolved into Homo neanderthalensis?

2. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

3. Species that have evolved from a common ancestor are grouped together under what heading?

4. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?

5. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?

(see the answer key)

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