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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. In the year 1500, there were about how many Homo sapiens in the world?
(a) 500 million.
(b) 1 billion.
(c) 900 million.
(d) 50 million.

2. The main argument present within the work entitled The New Instrument is that knowledge is what?
(a) A tool of survival.
(b) Helping humankind to progress.
(c) Power.
(d) Ignorance.

3. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 2,000 BC.
(b) 4,000 BC.
(c) 1,000 BC.
(d) 3,000 BC.

4. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1776 AD.
(b) 1352 AD.
(c) 1776 BC.
(d) 1352 BC.

5. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?
(a) 3,500 BC.
(b) 5,000 BC.
(c) 1,000 BC.
(d) 9,000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?

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

3. 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 acquisition of what?

4. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?

5. What causes a particular science to be designated as an exact science?

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