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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. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
(a) Most of the islands of the south-western Pacific Ocean.
(b) Most of western South America.
(c) Most of Central America and parts of North America.
(d) The continent of Australia.

2. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?
(a) Wampum.
(b) Beads.
(c) Colorful threads.
(d) Cowry shells.

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

4. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?
(a) Marie Curie.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Louis Pasteur.
(d) Mollie Burkhart.

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. For what span of time did the "most durable human species ever" (6) survive?

2. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?

3. The first coins in history were created around what year?

4. Of what material was the lion-man figure made that was found in the Stadel Cave in Germany?

5. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?

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