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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. When Harari names family, community, money and health as contributors to human happiness, which two does he name as having the greatest impact on human happiness?
(a) Family and community.
(b) Community and health.
(c) Family and money.
(d) Family and health.

2. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?
(a) 70,000 years ago.
(b) 40,000 years ago.
(c) 10,000 years ago.
(d) 20,000 years ago.

3. In what year was the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument published?
(a) 1512.
(b) 1864.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1438.

4. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways, Harari states one of the ways. He says that one quality of modern science is "its willingness to admit" (250) what?
(a) Flaws.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Agnosticism.
(d) Ignorance.

5. Which revolution took place in 1917?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The Russian Revolution.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The liberal revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that "any attempt to define the characteristics of modern society" (364) results in the naming of what quality?

2. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?

3. The Andean World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

4. The combined mass of "all surviving large wild animals is less than" (350) how many tons?

5. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years" (249) was what event?

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