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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. In the year 1500, there were about how many Homo sapiens in the world?
(a) 50 million.
(b) 500 million.
(c) 1 billion.
(d) 900 million.

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

3. What does Harari NOT list as a factor that prevents "people from realising that the order organising our lives exists only in their imagination" (112)?
(a) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.
(b) The imagined order shapes our desires.
(c) The imagined order is subjective.
(d) The imagined order is inter-subjective.

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

5. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?
(a) They carved the Stadel lion-man.
(b) They created thousands of cave etchings.
(c) They settled Australia.
(d) They drove the Neanderthals to extinction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?

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

3. Harari states that "the most unique feature of Sapiens language" (24) is that it provides its speakers with what?

4. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?

5. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?

(see the answer key)

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