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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. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?
(a) Pythagoras.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Plato.
(d) Francis Bacon.

2. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?
(a) 500.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 2,000.

3. The sum total of banknotes and coins existing in the world, according to Harari, is what?
(a) Less than 3 billion dollars.
(b) Less than 900 million dollars.
(c) Less than 1 trillion dollars.
(d) Less than 6 trillion dollars.

4. If 100 commodities are traded in the market, how many different exchange rates do buyers and sellers have to know?
(a) 5,094.
(b) 4,950.
(c) 9,450.
(d) 9,540.

5. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 9,000 BC.
(b) 5,000 BC.
(c) 4,000 BC.
(d) 3,000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?

2. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?

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

4. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways" (250), Harari states that one quality of modern science is "its centrality of observation" (251) and its centrality of what other element?

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

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