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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. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?
(a) The woolly mammoth.
(b) The saber-toothed tiger.
(c) The diprotodon.
(d) The super kangaroo.

2. What does Harari NOT provide as an example of an imagined order?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) The opioid crisis.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Democracy.

3. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Letters.
(c) Topographical information.
(d) Geographical information.

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

5. 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 drove the Neanderthals to extinction.
(c) They settled Australia.
(d) They created thousands of cave etchings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?

2. Voltaire said that "there is no" what, while instructing the listener not to "tell that to" his servant "least he murder" (110) Voltaire in the night?

3. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?

4. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?

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

(see the answer key)

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