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

2. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
(a) Australia and eastern Asia.
(b) Most of western South America.
(c) Only the continent of Australia.
(d) Most of Central America and parts of North America.

3. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
(a) The continent of Australia.
(b) Most of the islands of the south-western Pacific Ocean.
(c) Most of western South America.
(d) Most of Central America and parts of North America.

4. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came in" (249) what year?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1929.

5. 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 is subjective.
(c) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(d) The imagined order shapes our desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?

2. What is hubris?

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

4. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?

5. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?

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