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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. The Cognitive Revolution occurred how long ago?
(a) Between 100,000 and 20,000 years ago.
(b) Between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago.
(c) Between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago.
(d) Between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago.

2. How much money that exists in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) More than 5 trillion dollars.
(b) More than 50 trillion dollars.
(c) More than 20 trillion dollars.
(d) More than 10 trillion dollars.

3. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

4. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways" (250), Harari states that one quality of modern science is "its centrality of observation" (251) and its centrality of what other element?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Logic.
(c) Survival.
(d) Mathematics.

5. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in isolation for too long.
(b) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.
(c) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of friends.
(d) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fact does Harari states "used to be one of history's most closely guarded secrets" (4)?

2. What is NOT a point on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?

3. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?

4. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term human to refer to whom?

5. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?

(see the answer key)

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