1. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?
(a) Between 6 and 12 million.
(b) Between 1 and 3 million.
(c) Between 9 and 10 million.
(d) Between 5 and 8 million.

2. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?
(a) 4000 BC.
(b) 2000 BC.
(c) 3000 BC.
(d) 500 AD.

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

4. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Gods.
(c) Commoners.
(d) Superior people.

5. The people of what country invented gunpowder?
(a) France.
(b) China.
(c) Italy.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What two elements does the author point to as "depleting the globe's reservoirs of contentment" (384)?

3. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?

4. If today's human population were weighed on a scale, what would be the combined weight?

5. Harari names the current time as "the first period in history that the world is dominated by" (374) an elite class that loves what element?

(see the answer key)

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