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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. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Confucianism.
(d) Scientology.

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

3. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?
(a) 1599.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1199.
(d) 1399.

4. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?
(a) 1602.
(b) 1499.
(c) 1522.
(d) 1620.

5. The sum total of banknotes and coins existing in the world, according to Harari, is what?
(a) Less than 3 billion dollars.
(b) Less than 6 trillion dollars.
(c) Less than 900 million dollars.
(d) Less than 1 trillion dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?

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

3. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?

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

5. 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)?

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