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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. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of health.
(b) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.
(c) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in quarantined conditions for too long.
(d) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.

2. What term does Harari define as "a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order" (209)?
(a) Religion.
(b) Cult.
(c) Culture.
(d) Society.

3. Which revolution took place in 1848?
(a) The liberal revolution.
(b) The Scientific Revolution.
(c) The Russian Revolution.
(d) The Cognitive Revolution.

4. The first coins in history were created around what year?
(a) 1139 BC.
(b) 640 BC.
(c) 120 BC.
(d) 240 BC.

5. About how many cattle are there in the world, according to Harari?
(a) 800 million.
(b) 8 billion.
(c) 1.5 billion.
(d) 80 billion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how many giraffes are there in the world, according to Harari?

3. What two elements does Harari name as taking the place of family and community once they had fallen?

4. In 2000, the world was home to about how many humans?

5. The title of the Afterword included at the conclusion of Sapiens is The Animal That Became a what?

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