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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 describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?
(a) 2 million years ago.
(b) 30 million years ago.
(c) 6 million years ago.
(d) 9 million years ago.

2. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?
(a) 500.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 2,000.

3. Various species of humans began "going after large animals" (67) during hunting around how long ago?
(a) 400,000 years ago.
(b) 40,000 years ago.
(c) 4 million years ago.
(d) 4000 years ago.

4. To what author does Harari allude when stating the author's depiction of "the liberal regimes of nineteenth-century Europe" giving "priority to individual freedom" (165)?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) The Marquis de Sade.
(d) Albert Camus.

5. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?
(a) In constant flux.
(b) Recorded for all within the culture to see.
(c) Static.
(d) Understood by all members of the culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?

2. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?

3. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?

4. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?

5. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?

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