View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?
(a) Between 250,000 and 750,000.
(b) Between 5 and 6 million.
(c) Between 6 and 8 million.
(d) Between 1 and 2 million.

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

3. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?
(a) Ancient Aztecs.
(b) Ancient Babylonians.
(c) Ancient Mayans.
(d) Ancient Incas.

4. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?
(a) Australia.
(b) South America.
(c) Africa.
(d) The Middle East.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the year 1500, there were about how many Homo sapiens in the world?

2. If 100 commodities are traded in the market, how many different exchange rates do buyers and sellers have to know?

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

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. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 211 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample