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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) Copper.
(b) Barley.
(c) Gold.
(d) Silk.

2. What does Harari NOT provide as an example of an imagined order?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Democracy.
(d) The opioid crisis.

3. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?
(a) 189.
(b) 276.
(c) 48.
(d) 371.

4. Sapiens began to drive other human species into extinction and to take over the rest of the planet how long ago?
(a) 70,000 years ago.
(b) 10,000 years ago.
(c) 40,000 years ago.
(d) 20,000 years ago.

5. The Aztec Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) Peru.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Greece.
(d) New Zealand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari names Sapiens' first achievement after the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution as what?

2. What is NOT a point on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?

3. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?

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?

5. Sapiens populated East Africa how long ago?

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