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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. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?
(a) The Agricultural Revolution.
(b) The Cognitive Revolution.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Clean Energy Revolution.

2. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1352 BC.
(b) 1352 AD.
(c) 1776 BC.
(d) 1776 AD.

3. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?
(a) 2,000 BC.
(b) 3,000 BC.
(c) 1,000 BC.
(d) 4,000 BC.

4. Before the transition to agriculture, earth was home to about how many nomadic foragers?
(a) Between 5 and 8 million.
(b) Between 1 and 3 million.
(c) Between 9 and 10 million.
(d) Between 6 and 12 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

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

3. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?

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

5. To what novel is Harari alluding when he discusses the ability to "believe six impossible things before breakfast" (24)?

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