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

2. Poverty, wars, illness, old age, and death are all listed by the author as "the fruits of our what" (264) as a species?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Lives.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Labors.

3. What is hubris?
(a) An unreasonable and blasphemous show of confidence.
(b) Human ingenuity.
(c) A system of agricultural processes.
(d) Humor.

4. Harari describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?
(a) 2 million years ago.
(b) 6 million years ago.
(c) 9 million years ago.
(d) 30 million years ago.

5. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways" (250), Harari states that one quality of modern science is "its centrality of observation" (251) and its centrality of what other element?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Logic.
(c) Survival.
(d) Mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?

2. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?

3. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came in" (249) what year?

4. What dynasty united China in 221 BC?

5. In what year was the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument published?

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