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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?
(a) It put Homo sapiens at greater risk of starvation and disease.
(b) It caused great harm to the environment.
(c) It robbed Homo sapiens of their leisure time.
(d) It resulted in a loss of variety and stimulation in the lives of Homo sapiens.

2. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) Africa.
(b) Asia.
(c) America.
(d) Australia.

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

4. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Topographical information.
(c) Letters.
(d) Geographical information.

5. Sapiens populated East Africa how long ago?
(a) 150,000 years ago.
(b) 12 million years ago.
(c) 2 million years ago.
(d) 50,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. If 100 commodities are traded in the market, how many different exchange rates do buyers and sellers have to know?

2. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?

3. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

4. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?

5. 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)?

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