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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 18-20 and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Scientology.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Confucianism.

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

4. In what century was there an extreme drop in the rates of child mortality?
(a) The twentieth.
(b) The eighteenth.
(c) The twenty-first.
(d) The nineteenth.

5. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?
(a) 500 AD.
(b) 3000 BC.
(c) 2000 BC.
(d) 4000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?

2. 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?

3. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?

4. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways" (250), Harari states that one quality of modern science is "its centrality of observation" (251) and its centrality of what other element?

5. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?

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