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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. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?
(a) Understanding that all cultures embrace internal contradictions.
(b) Understanding that all cultures embrace specific jargon.
(c) Understanding that all cultures embrace a sense of unity.
(d) Understanding that all cultures embrace a form of power structure.

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

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

4. Harari asserts that "The Agricultural Revolution made" what element of the human condition "more important than it had ever been before" (100)?
(a) Existentialist ideals.
(b) The present.
(c) The past.
(d) The future.

5. What is NOT a point on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?
(a) Logic.
(b) Research.
(c) Resources.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?

2. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?

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

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

5. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?

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