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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to 1500, what two fields were considered to be entirely separate from one another?
(a) The arts and cultural traditions.
(b) Mathematics and psychology.
(c) The arts and mathematics.
(d) Science and technology.

2. The main argument present within the work entitled The New Instrument is that knowledge is what?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Power.
(c) Helping humankind to progress.
(d) A tool of survival.

3. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?
(a) 23.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

4. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?
(a) Between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago.
(b) Between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago.
(c) Between 100,000 and 20,000 years ago.
(d) Between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago.

5. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?
(a) 4 million years.
(b) 400,000 years.
(c) 4,000 years.
(d) 40,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?

2. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?

3. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?

4. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?

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

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