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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 18-20 and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what span of time did the "most durable human species ever" (6) survive?
(a) 10 million years.
(b) 50,000 years.
(c) 2 million years.
(d) 12 million years.

2. In 2000, the world was home to about how many humans?
(a) 6 billion.
(b) 5 billion.
(c) 8 billion.
(d) 7 billion.

3. Harari points to what element as the reason for the decline of violence in recent decades?
(a) The rise of the market.
(b) The rise of the state.
(c) The rise of the internet.
(d) The rise of the university system.

4. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?
(a) Southern Mesopotamia.
(b) Eastern Greece.
(c) Northern Rome.
(d) Northern Mesopotamia.

5. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(b) 2,000 years.
(c) 10,000 years.
(d) Tens of thousands of years.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

2. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?

3. The combined mass of "all domesticated farmyard animals" (350) would equal how many tons?

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

5. The Andean World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

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