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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. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?
(a) Latin script.
(b) Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
(c) Braille.
(d) The Hammurabi Code.

2. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?
(a) Ancient Mayans.
(b) Ancient Aztecs.
(c) Ancient Incas.
(d) Ancient Babylonians.

3. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?
(a) They carved the Stadel lion-man.
(b) They created thousands of cave etchings.
(c) They drove the Neanderthals to extinction.
(d) They settled Australia.

4. About how long ago did the Agricultural Revolution occur?
(a) 5,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) 10,000 years ago.
(d) 25,000 years ago.

5. What fact does Harari states "used to be one of history's most closely guarded secrets" (4)?
(a) Homo sapiens evolved from apes.
(b) Homo sapiens belong to a family.
(c) Homo sapiens invented language.
(d) Homo sapiens can survive on other planets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part Three of Sapiens is entitled "The" what "of Humankind" (162)?

2. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?

3. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?

4. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?

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

(see the answer key)

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