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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. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Reason.
(c) Logic.
(d) Progress.

2. The sum total of banknotes and coins existing in the world, according to Harari, is what?
(a) Less than 900 million dollars.
(b) Less than 1 trillion dollars.
(c) Less than 3 billion dollars.
(d) Less than 6 trillion dollars.

3. If 100 commodities are traded in the market, how many different exchange rates do buyers and sellers have to know?
(a) 9,540.
(b) 4,950.
(c) 9,450.
(d) 5,094.

4. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?
(a) An upper-class income.
(b) A middle-class income.
(c) A white collar income.
(d) A fixed income.

5. The main argument present within the work entitled The New Instrument is that knowledge is what?
(a) A tool of survival.
(b) Power.
(c) Helping humankind to progress.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first coins in history were created around what year?

2. What is NOT one of the negative effects Harari describes when stating the effects of the Agricultural Revolution?

3. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?

4. Prior to 1500, what two fields were considered to be entirely separate from one another?

5. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

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