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

2. Part Three of Sapiens is entitled "The" what "of Humankind" (162)?
(a) Destruction.
(b) Stupidity.
(c) Unification.
(d) Crown Jewel.

3. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?
(a) 371.
(b) 48.
(c) 276.
(d) 189.

4. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?
(a) The barter system.
(b) The education system.
(c) The justice system.
(d) The stock market system.

5. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?
(a) Between 6 and 8 million.
(b) Between 250,000 and 750,000.
(c) Between 1 and 2 million.
(d) Between 5 and 6 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Humans in what two areas evolved into Homo neanderthalensis?

2. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?

3. Poverty, wars, illness, old age, and death are all listed by the author as "the fruits of our what" (264) as a species?

4. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?

5. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term Sapiens to refer to whom?

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