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

2. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?
(a) Religion.
(b) Monarchies.
(c) A handful of plant species.
(d) The merchant class.

3. In what part of the world did the ancient Sumerians live?
(a) Southern Mesopotamia.
(b) Northern Mesopotamia.
(c) Eastern Greece.
(d) Northern Rome.

4. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?
(a) Sovereignty and intrinsic value.
(b) Convertibility and trust.
(c) Negotiability and convertibility.
(d) Trust and sovereignty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Poverty, wars, illness, old age, and death are all listed by the author as "the fruits of our what" (264) as a species?

3. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?

4. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?

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?

(see the answer key)

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