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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 is the meaning of the term quipu?
(a) A court of law.
(b) A full script.
(c) An imagined community.
(d) A set of colorful cords used to record mathematical data.

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

3. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?
(a) The barter system.
(b) The education system.
(c) The justice system.
(d) The stock market system.

4. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 4,000 BC.
(b) 5,000 BC.
(c) 3,000 BC.
(d) 8,000 BC.

5. How much money that exists in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) More than 50 trillion dollars.
(b) More than 20 trillion dollars.
(c) More than 10 trillion dollars.
(d) More than 5 trillion dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did humans land on the moon?

2. 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)?

3. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?

4. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?

5. The Athenian Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?

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