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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 500.

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

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

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. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?
(a) The colonization of Africa.
(b) The colonization of Antarctica.
(c) The colonization of a large number of small and isolated islands to the north of Australia.
(d) The colonization of Australia 45,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?

2. For what span of time did the "most durable human species ever" (6) survive?

3. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

4. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?

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

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