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

2. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?
(a) The Incans.
(b) The Babylonians.
(c) The Mayans.
(d) The Aztecs.

3. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?
(a) A peaceful species.
(b) Animals.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Foragers.

4. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?
(a) Australia.
(b) The Middle East.
(c) South America.
(d) Africa.

5. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?

2. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?

3. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?

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

5. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

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