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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. If 100 commodities are traded in the market, how many different exchange rates do buyers and sellers have to know?
(a) 4,950.
(b) 5,094.
(c) 9,540.
(d) 9,450.

2. Poverty, wars, illness, old age, and death are all listed by the author as "the fruits of our what" (264) as a species?
(a) Labors.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Lives.
(d) Ignorance.

3. The Athenian Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) Greece.
(b) Italy.
(c) Chile.
(d) Mexico.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?

2. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?

3. On what date did humans land on the moon?

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

5. What sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?

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