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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. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1352 BC.
(b) 1776 BC.
(c) 1776 AD.
(d) 1352 AD.

2. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of health.
(b) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in quarantined conditions for too long.
(c) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.
(d) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.

3. Biologists classify organisms into what?
(a) Species.
(b) Families.
(c) Types.
(d) Phyla.

4. Harari states that throughout the text, he will use the term human to refer to whom?
(a) All extant members of the genus Homo.
(b) Members of the species Homo sapiens.
(c) Creatures with opposable thumbs.
(d) The ancestors of chimpanzees.

5. Harari states that "the most unique feature of Sapiens language" (24) is that it provides its speakers with what?
(a) The ability to solve complex problems.
(b) The ability to speak about fictions.
(c) The ability to communicate about danger.
(d) The ability to use voice intonation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?

2. What causes a particular science to be designated as an exact science?

3. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?

4. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?

5. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?

(see the answer key)

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