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

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

3. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?
(a) Between 5 and 6 million.
(b) Between 250,000 and 750,000.
(c) Between 1 and 2 million.
(d) Between 6 and 8 million.

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

5. Around what year did global warming melt the glaciers blocking the way from Alaska to the rest of America?
(a) 36,000 BC.
(b) 24,000 BC.
(c) 12,000 BC.
(d) 6,000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?

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

3. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?

4. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?

5. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?

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