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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) The Hammurabi Code.
(c) Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
(d) Braille.

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

3. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?
(a) The Cognitive Revolution.
(b) The Clean Energy Revolution.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Agricultural Revolution.

4. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?
(a) Louis Pasteur.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Mollie Burkhart.
(d) Marie Curie.

5. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?
(a) 3500 BC.
(b) 200 BC.
(c) 700 BC.
(d) 1200 BC.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?

3. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?

4. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?

5. How many points lie on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?

(see the answer key)

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