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

2. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?
(a) A white collar income.
(b) A fixed income.
(c) A middle-class income.
(d) An upper-class income.

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

4. The Aztec Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) Greece.
(b) Mexico.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Peru.

5. Which name of a god is NOT listed among the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon?
(a) Murabi.
(b) Marduk.
(c) Enlil.
(d) Anu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?

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

3. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?

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

5. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?

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