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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what span of time did the "most durable human species ever" (6) survive?
(a) 2 million years.
(b) 50,000 years.
(c) 10 million years.
(d) 12 million years.

2. How much money that exists in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) More than 5 trillion dollars.
(b) More than 10 trillion dollars.
(c) More than 50 trillion dollars.
(d) More than 20 trillion dollars.

3. Empires are noted as "one of the main reasons for the drastic reduction in" (190) what?
(a) Material wealth.
(b) The number of religions practiced.
(c) Peaceful conditions.
(d) Human diversity.

4. To what author does Harari allude when stating the author's depiction of "the liberal regimes of nineteenth-century Europe" giving "priority to individual freedom" (165)?
(a) Albert Camus.
(b) The Marquis de Sade.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Charles Dickens.

5. Sapiens populated East Africa how long ago?
(a) 2 million years ago.
(b) 12 million years ago.
(c) 150,000 years ago.
(d) 50,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago did the Big Bang take place?

2. For how long did humans feed themselves "by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention" (77)?

3. The Code of Hammurabi served as a cooperation manual for hundreds of thousands of what?

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

5. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?

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