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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. To what object does the author refer when writing that the object represents a person trying to announce their presence to the world?
(a) A piece of pottery.
(b) An obelisk.
(c) A human footprint.
(d) A human handprint.

2. What two examples does Harari point to as being the most important in the rise of imagined communities?
(a) The consumer tribe and the the university system.
(b) The state and the consumer tribe.
(c) The religious sector and the financial market.
(d) The nation and the consumer tribe.

3. Harari describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?
(a) 6 million years ago.
(b) 30 million years ago.
(c) 2 million years ago.
(d) 9 million years ago.

4. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?
(a) 1512.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1687.
(d) 1969.

5. What is the only creature on Earth who "can speak about things that don't really exist" (24)?
(a) Chimpanzees.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?

2. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?

3. The last Ice Age that happened on Earth occurred during what span of time?

4. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?

5. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?

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