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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 18-20 and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?
(a) 8.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 23.

2. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?
(a) 1522.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1602.
(d) 1499.

3. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?
(a) Its territorial extent.
(b) Cultural diversity and flexible borders.
(c) Its form of government.
(d) The size of its population.

4. Voltaire said that "there is no" what, while instructing the listener not to "tell that to" his servant "least he murder" (110) Voltaire in the night?
(a) Basis for social stratification.
(b) Food left.
(c) Justice.
(d) God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many cattle are there in the world, according to Harari?

2. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?

3. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?

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

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?

(see the answer key)

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