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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. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?
(a) 4000 BC.
(b) 500 AD.
(c) 3000 BC.
(d) 2000 BC.

2. Around what year did global warming melt the glaciers blocking the way from Alaska to the rest of America?
(a) 36,000 BC.
(b) 12,000 BC.
(c) 6,000 BC.
(d) 24,000 BC.

3. What does Harari NOT list as a factor that prevents "people from realising that the order organising our lives exists only in their imagination" (112)?
(a) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(b) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.
(c) The imagined order shapes our desires.
(d) The imagined order is subjective.

4. The measurement called a sila was equivalent to how many gallons?
(a) Two gallons.
(b) One gallon.
(c) A half a gallon.
(d) A quarter of a gallon.

5. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?
(a) 20,000 years ago.
(b) 10,000 years ago.
(c) 70,000 years ago.
(d) 40,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?

2. 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)?

3. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?

4. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?

5. Biologists classify organisms into what?

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