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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 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 Golem.
(d) The story of The Tower of Babel.

2. If 100 commodities are traded in the market, how many different exchange rates do buyers and sellers have to know?
(a) 9,540.
(b) 5,094.
(c) 4,950.
(d) 9,450.

3. Harari asserts that observation is not what?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Incontrovertible proof.
(c) Religion.
(d) Certainty.

4. The sum total of money throughout the world, according to Harari, is what?
(a) 22 trillion dollars.
(b) 90 billion dollars.
(c) 60 trillion dollars.
(d) 523 trillion dollars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?

2. The people of what country invented gunpowder?

3. The Athenian Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?

4. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?

5. The Aztec Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?

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