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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. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?
(a) Confucianism.
(b) Scientology.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Christianity.

2. Harari asserts that "The Agricultural Revolution made" what element of the human condition "more important than it had ever been before" (100)?
(a) The past.
(b) Existentialist ideals.
(c) The present.
(d) The future.

3. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?
(a) 2,000 years.
(b) Tens of thousands of years.
(c) 10,000 years.
(d) Hundreds of thousands of years.

4. 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) 90.
(b) 60.
(c) 75.
(d) 30.

5. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came in" (249) what year?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?

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

4. Which revolution took place in 1848?

5. Harari states that "for nearly the entire history of our species, Sapiens lived as" (40) what?

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