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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 invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?
(a) The Aztecs.
(b) The Mongols.
(c) The Incas.
(d) The Ottomans.

2. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?
(a) To have his eye cast out.
(b) To have his hand cut off.
(c) To act as the victim's servant for three days.
(d) To have his own bone broken.

3. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?
(a) 25 million years.
(b) 2.5 million years.
(c) 30 million years.
(d) 1 million years.

4. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?
(a) The story of The Tower of Babel.
(b) The story of Icarus.
(c) The story of the fox and the grapes.
(d) The story of Golem.

5. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?
(a) Progress.
(b) Religion.
(c) Logic.
(d) Reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?

2. The main argument present within the work entitled The New Instrument is that knowledge is what?

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

4. In what century did cannons emerge to become a decisive factor in battle?

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

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