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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. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term Sapiens to refer to whom?
(a) All extant members of the genus Homo.
(b) Creatures with opposable thumbs.
(c) Members of the species Homo sapiens.
(d) The ancestors of chimpanzees.

2. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?
(a) 30 million years.
(b) 2.5 million years.
(c) 1 million years.
(d) 25 million years.

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

4. What term does Harari define as "a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order" (209)?
(a) Culture.
(b) Cult.
(c) Religion.
(d) Society.

5. The Australian World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
(a) Most of Central America and parts of North America.
(b) Most of western South America.
(c) Australia and eastern Asia.
(d) Only the continent of Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?

2. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?

3. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?

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

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

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