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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?
(a) 6.5 billion years ago.
(b) 45 trillion years ago.
(c) 80 million years ago.
(d) 13.5 billion years ago.

2. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 4,000 BC.
(b) 5,000 BC.
(c) 3,000 BC.
(d) 9,000 BC.

3. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?
(a) Understanding that all cultures embrace a sense of unity.
(b) Understanding that all cultures embrace specific jargon.
(c) Understanding that all cultures embrace internal contradictions.
(d) Understanding that all cultures embrace a form of power structure.

4. Voltaire said that "there is no" what, while instructing the listener not to "tell that to" his servant "least he murder" (110) Voltaire in the night?
(a) Justice.
(b) Food left.
(c) Basis for social stratification.
(d) God.

5. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?
(a) It robbed Homo sapiens of their leisure time.
(b) It put Homo sapiens at greater risk of starvation and disease.
(c) It caused great harm to the environment.
(d) It resulted in a loss of variety and stimulation in the lives of Homo sapiens.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?

2. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

3. About how long ago did the Agricultural Revolution occur?

4. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?

5. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?

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