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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. 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 acquisition of what?
(a) New powers.
(b) True knowledge.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Practical application.

2. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?
(a) Foragers.
(b) Animals.
(c) Farmers.
(d) A peaceful species.

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

4. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?
(a) Biological.
(b) Material.
(c) Aesthetic.
(d) Financial.

5. Wheat and goats had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 3,000 BC.
(b) 4,000 BC.
(c) 9,000 BC.
(d) 5,000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?

2. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?

3. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?

4. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?

5. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?

(see the answer key)

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