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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. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in quarantined conditions for too long.
(b) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.
(c) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.
(d) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of health.

2. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 3,000 BC.
(b) 2,000 BC.
(c) 4,000 BC.
(d) 1,000 BC.

3. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?
(a) They created thousands of cave etchings.
(b) They carved the Stadel lion-man.
(c) They settled Australia.
(d) They drove the Neanderthals to extinction.

4. How many years did the journey take when Magellan circumnavigated the earth for the first time?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

5. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?
(a) 30.
(b) 75.
(c) 90.
(d) 60.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term human to refer to whom?

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

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

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

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

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