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

2. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?
(a) 13.5 billion years ago.
(b) 6.5 billion years ago.
(c) 45 trillion years ago.
(d) 80 million years ago.

3. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?
(a) 1512.
(b) 1687.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1969.

4. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term human to refer to whom?
(a) Creatures with opposable thumbs.
(b) Members of the species Homo sapiens.
(c) All extant members of the genus Homo.
(d) The ancestors of chimpanzees.

5. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
(a) Plato.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Leonardo da Vinci.
(d) Isaac Newton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?

2. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?

3. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?

4. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?

5. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?

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