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

2. How many points lie on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Nine.

3. Voltaire said that "there is no" what, while instructing the listener not to "tell that to" his servant "least he murder" (110) Voltaire in the night?
(a) Justice.
(b) Food left.
(c) God.
(d) Basis for social stratification.

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

5. Harari uses an image from what Charlie Chaplin film to accompany his discussion of the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Modern Times.
(b) The Kid.
(c) The Gold Rush.
(d) The Great Dictator.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Harari define elements of society such as prisons and concentration camps?

2. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?

3. The Athenian Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?

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

5. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

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