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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. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?
(a) 1200 BC.
(b) 700 BC.
(c) 3500 BC.
(d) 200 BC.

2. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?
(a) Neanderthals.
(b) Homo sapiens.
(c) Humans.
(d) Chimpanzees.

3. Biologists classify organisms into what?
(a) Families.
(b) Phyla.
(c) Species.
(d) Types.

4. During the last million years, there has been an Ice Age how frequently, on average?
(a) Every 50,000 years.
(b) Every 100,000 years.
(c) Every 10,000 years.
(d) Every 250,000 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. History's first known money consisted of what material?

2. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?

3. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?

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

5. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?

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