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

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

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

4. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?
(a) 1399.
(b) 1599.
(c) 1199.
(d) 1699.

5. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Plato.
(c) Pythagoras.
(d) Francis Bacon.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the last million years, there has been an Ice Age how frequently, on average?

2. The Hammurabi code divides people into two genders and three classes. What is NOT one of the three classes mentioned in the Hammurabi Code?

3. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?

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

5. What does Harari NOT list as a factor that prevents "people from realising that the order organising our lives exists only in their imagination" (112)?

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