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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 is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?
(a) It robbed Homo sapiens of their leisure time.
(b) It resulted in a loss of variety and stimulation in the lives of Homo sapiens.
(c) It put Homo sapiens at greater risk of starvation and disease.
(d) It caused great harm to the environment.

2. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) 90.
(b) 50.
(c) 75.
(d) 40.

3. The main argument present within the work entitled The New Instrument is that knowledge is what?
(a) Helping humankind to progress.
(b) A tool of survival.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Power.

4. What does Harari describe as "insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment"?
(a) Troglodytes.
(b) Woolly Mammoths.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Prehistoric humans.

5. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?
(a) Its form of government.
(b) Cultural diversity and flexible borders.
(c) The size of its population.
(d) Its territorial extent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?

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

3. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years" (249) was what event?

4. What species does Harari name as the "most durable human species ever" (6)?

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

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