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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. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?
(a) Understood by all members of the culture.
(b) Recorded for all within the culture to see.
(c) Static.
(d) In constant flux.

2. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 90.
(d) 75.

3. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?
(a) The diprotodon.
(b) The woolly mammoth.
(c) The saber-toothed tiger.
(d) The super kangaroo.

4. What term does Harari define as "a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order" (209)?
(a) Culture.
(b) Society.
(c) Cult.
(d) Religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. History's first known money consisted of what material?

2. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term Sapiens to refer to whom?

3. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?

4. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?

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

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