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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. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Plato.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci.

2. If today's human population were weighed on a scale, what would be the combined weight?
(a) About 3000 million tons.
(b) About 300 million tons.
(c) About 300 billion tons.
(d) About 300 trillion tons.

3. In 2015, the world was home to just under how many humans?
(a) 9 billion.
(b) 9.5 billion.
(c) 7 billion.
(d) 8 billion.

4. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) Asia.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) Africa.

5. What two examples does Harari point to as being the most important in the rise of imagined communities?
(a) The religious sector and the financial market.
(b) The nation and the consumer tribe.
(c) The consumer tribe and the the university system.
(d) The state and the consumer tribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?

2. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?

3. The people of what country invented gunpowder?

4. Harari asserts that the last 500 years have demonstrated an "unprecedented growth in human" (248) what?

5. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?

(see the answer key)

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