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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. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?
(a) A fixed income.
(b) A middle-class income.
(c) A white collar income.
(d) An upper-class income.

2. Harari asserts that observation is not what?
(a) Incontrovertible proof.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Religion.
(d) Certainty.

3. Which name of a god is NOT listed among the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon?
(a) Anu.
(b) Enlil.
(c) Murabi.
(d) Marduk.

4. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of health.
(b) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in quarantined conditions for too long.
(c) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.
(d) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.

5. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?
(a) 1599.
(b) 1399.
(c) 1699.
(d) 1199.

Short Answer Questions

1. The measurement called a sila was equivalent to how many gallons?

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

3. Empires are noted as "one of the main reasons for the drastic reduction in" (190) what?

4. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?

5. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?

(see the answer key)

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