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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The people of what country invented gunpowder?
(a) Mexico.
(b) China.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

3. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?
(a) Between 9 and 10 million.
(b) Between 1 and 3 million.
(c) Between 6 and 12 million.
(d) Between 5 and 8 million.

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

5. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?
(a) Understood by all members of the culture.
(b) In constant flux.
(c) Static.
(d) Recorded for all within the culture to see.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?

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

3. Harari asserts that the last 500 years have demonstrated an "unprecedented growth in human" (248) what?

4. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?

5. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term human to refer to whom?

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