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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. The last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?
(a) From 60,000 years ago to 5,000 years ago.
(b) From 90,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.
(c) From 75,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago.
(d) From 150,000 years ago to 45,000 years ago.

2. Biologists classify organisms into what?
(a) Species.
(b) Phyla.
(c) Types.
(d) Families.

3. Harari points to what element as the reason for the decline of violence in recent decades?
(a) The rise of the state.
(b) The rise of the market.
(c) The rise of the university system.
(d) The rise of the internet.

4. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?
(a) Flexible borders.
(b) A tyrannical leader.
(c) A significant number of distinct peoples being ruled.
(d) An unlimited appetite for power.

5. In what millenium does Harari assert that people began to believe that a single order could rule all of humanity?
(a) The First Millennium BC.
(b) The Second Millennium BC.
(c) The First Millennium AD.
(d) The Third Millennium BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?

2. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?

3. From what culture did the myth of Gilgamesh spring?

4. In what year did the first commercial train service begin operating between Liverpool and Manchester?

5. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?

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