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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. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
(a) Plato.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Isaac Newton.

2. What was the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth?
(a) The diprotodon.
(b) The saber-toothed tiger.
(c) The woolly mammoth.
(d) The super kangaroo.

3. Humans in what two areas evolved into Homo neanderthalensis?
(a) North America and South America.
(b) Asia and Eastern Europe.
(c) Europe and West Africa.
(d) Europe and West Asia.

4. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 500.

5. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?
(a) The Incas.
(b) The Aztecs.
(c) The Mongols.
(d) The Ottomans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?

3. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?

4. To what author does Harari allude when stating the author's depiction of "the liberal regimes of nineteenth-century Europe" giving "priority to individual freedom" (165)?

5. The Code of Hammurabi stated that if one man were to break another man's bone, his punishment would be what?

(see the answer key)

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