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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 NOT provided as an example of a full script?
(a) The Hammurabi Code.
(b) Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
(c) Latin script.
(d) Braille.

2. What does Harari describe as "insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment"?
(a) Prehistoric humans.
(b) Troglodytes.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Woolly Mammoths.

3. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came in" (249) what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1941.

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

5. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) 50.
(b) 90.
(c) 75.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1450 AD, what percentage of earth's inhabitants lived within a "single mega-world" (167)?

2. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?

3. Harari points to what element as the reason for the decline of violence in recent decades?

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

5. The people of what country invented gunpowder?

(see the answer key)

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