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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) 13.5 billion years ago.
(b) 6.5 billion years ago.
(c) 80 million years ago.
(d) 45 trillion years ago.

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

3. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?
(a) 1199.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1599.
(d) 1399.

4. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?
(a) The Aztec world.
(b) The Andean world.
(c) The Mesoamerican world.
(d) The Afro-Asian world.

5. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?
(a) Unmarked metal ingots.
(b) Paper bills.
(c) Wampum.
(d) Cowry shells.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?

2. Prior to 1500, what two fields were considered to be entirely separate from one another?

3. The measurement called a sila was equivalent to how many gallons?

4. Voltaire said that "there is no" what, while instructing the listener not to "tell that to" his servant "least he murder" (110) Voltaire in the night?

5. The sum total of money throughout the world, according to Harari, is what?

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