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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. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?
(a) Confucianism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Buddhism.

2. The first coins in history were created around what year?
(a) 240 BC.
(b) 1139 BC.
(c) 120 BC.
(d) 640 BC.

3. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

4. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?
(a) The Ottomans.
(b) The Incas.
(c) The Mongols.
(d) The Aztecs.

5. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?
(a) Between 6 and 8 million.
(b) Between 1 and 2 million.
(c) Between 5 and 6 million.
(d) Between 250,000 and 750,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?

2. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?

3. How many years did the journey take when Magellan circumnavigated the earth for the first time?

4. 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?

5. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?

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