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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. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?
(a) 20 billion dollars.
(b) 2 trillion dollars.
(c) 100 billion dollars.
(d) 250 billion dollars.

2. To what author does Harari allude when stating the author's depiction of "the liberal regimes of nineteenth-century Europe" giving "priority to individual freedom" (165)?
(a) The Marquis de Sade.
(b) Albert Camus.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Charles Dickens.

3. To what musician does Harari allude when providing an example of a consumer tribe?
(a) Eminem.
(b) The Weeknd.
(c) Michael Jackson.
(d) Madonna.

4. What does Harari NOT list as a factor that prevents "people from realising that the order organising our lives exists only in their imagination" (112)?
(a) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.
(b) The imagined order shapes our desires.
(c) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(d) The imagined order is subjective.

5. During what revolution did the following events occur: urbanization, the disappearance of the peasant class, and the empowerment of the common person?
(a) The Cognitive Revolution.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) The Scientific Revolution.
(d) The Agricultural Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what century did cannons emerge to become a decisive factor in battle?

3. Harari points out that before what year, the majority of humans had not had access to the techniques of modern medicine?

4. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways, Harari states one of the ways. He says that one quality of modern science is "its willingness to admit" (250) what?

5. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?

(see the answer key)

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