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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. The Aztec Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Greece.
(c) Peru.
(d) Mexico.

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) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) The Marquis de Sade.
(d) Albert Camus.

3. What sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?
(a) Croquet.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Cricket.

4. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?
(a) Firecrackers.
(b) Construction.
(c) Bombs.
(d) Medicine.

5. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?
(a) Over three million.
(b) Over three million.
(c) Over one million.
(d) Over six million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument published?

2. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?

3. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?

4. Poverty, wars, illness, old age, and death are all listed by the author as "the fruits of our what" (264) as a species?

5. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?

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