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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. Harari asserts that what element "might endanger the survival of Home sapiens itself" (351)?
(a) Agricultural practices.
(b) Methane gas.
(c) Global warming.
(d) Ecological turmoil.

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

3. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?
(a) 9,000 BC.
(b) 1,000 BC.
(c) 5,000 BC.
(d) 3,500 BC.

4. 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)?
(a) Albert Camus.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) The Marquis de Sade.
(d) Charles Dickens.

5. Harari states that "the most unique feature of Sapiens language" (24) is that it provides its speakers with what?
(a) The ability to communicate about danger.
(b) The ability to use voice intonation.
(c) The ability to speak about fictions.
(d) The ability to solve complex problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?

2. 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?

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

4. Harari asserts that observation is not what?

5. Biologists classify organisms into what?

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