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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. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?
(a) Beads.
(b) Wampum.
(c) Colorful threads.
(d) Cowry shells.

2. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?
(a) The story of the fox and the grapes.
(b) The story of Icarus.
(c) The story of The Tower of Babel.
(d) The story of Golem.

3. Voltaire said that "there is no" what, while instructing the listener not to "tell that to" his servant "least he murder" (110) Voltaire in the night?
(a) God.
(b) Basis for social stratification.
(c) Food left.
(d) Justice.

4. In what century did cannons emerge to become a decisive factor in battle?
(a) The ninth.
(b) The thirteenth.
(c) The fifth.
(d) The fifteenth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?

2. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?

3. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?

4. Which name of a god is NOT listed among the leading deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon?

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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