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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. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?
(a) Understood by all members of the culture.
(b) In constant flux.
(c) Static.
(d) Recorded for all within the culture to see.

2. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?
(a) Financial.
(b) Material.
(c) Aesthetic.
(d) Biological.

3. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?
(a) Colorful threads.
(b) Beads.
(c) Cowry shells.
(d) Wampum.

4. The Athenian Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) Italy.
(b) Chile.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Greece.

5. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?
(a) 75.
(b) 30.
(c) 60.
(d) 90.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?

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

3. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?

4. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?

5. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?

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