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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 Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?
(a) To act as the victim's servant for three days.
(b) To have his eye cast out.
(c) To have his own bone broken.
(d) To have his hand cut off.

2. 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) Survival.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Logic.

3. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?
(a) 276.
(b) 371.
(c) 189.
(d) 48.

4. The people of what country invented gunpowder?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Italy.
(c) China.
(d) France.

5. The sum total of money throughout the world, according to Harari, is what?
(a) 60 trillion dollars.
(b) 523 trillion dollars.
(c) 90 billion dollars.
(d) 22 trillion dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?

2. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?

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

4. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?

5. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

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