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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. History's first known money consisted of what material?
(a) Gold.
(b) Silk.
(c) Copper.
(d) Barley.

2. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?
(a) Unmarked metal ingots.
(b) Wampum.
(c) Cowry shells.
(d) Paper bills.

3. 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) 30.
(b) 75.
(c) 60.
(d) 90.

4. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways, Harari states one of the ways. He says that one quality of modern science is "its willingness to admit" (250) what?
(a) Agnosticism.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Flaws.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The sum total of money throughout the world, according to Harari, is what?

2. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?

3. In 1800, the world was home to about how many humans?

4. Which Chinese empire was organized using a system called the baojia system?

5. On what human quality does Chapter 20 focus its discussion?

(see the answer key)

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