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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. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?
(a) Sovereignty and intrinsic value.
(b) Trust and sovereignty.
(c) Convertibility and trust.
(d) Negotiability and convertibility.

2. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) Australia.
(b) Africa.
(c) America.
(d) Asia.

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

4. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term Sapiens to refer to whom?
(a) Creatures with opposable thumbs.
(b) All extant members of the genus Homo.
(c) The ancestors of chimpanzees.
(d) Members of the species Homo sapiens.

5. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?
(a) 1592.
(b) 1501.
(c) 1498.
(d) 1519.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?

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

3. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?

4. In a band of 50 individuals, Harari states that there are how many one-on-one relationships?

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

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