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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. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?
(a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Chimpanzees.
(c) Humans.
(d) Neanderthals.

2. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?
(a) 48.
(b) 276.
(c) 189.
(d) 371.

3. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1776 BC.
(b) 1776 AD.
(c) 1352 BC.
(d) 1352 AD.

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

5. 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 shapes our desires.
(b) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(c) The imagined order is subjective.
(d) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Australian World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

2. Species that have evolved from a common ancestor are grouped together under what heading?

3. The Aztec Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?

4. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?

5. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?

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