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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. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?
(a) Religion.
(b) The merchant class.
(c) Monarchies.
(d) A handful of plant species.

2. How many years did the journey take when Magellan circumnavigated the earth for the first time?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

3. To whom does Harari allude when discussing "an objective phenomenon" (116)?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Marie Curie.
(c) Mollie Burkhart.
(d) Louis Pasteur.

4. Harari asserts that most of the foragers left by the first century AD had NOT been living where?
(a) Australia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Asia.
(d) America.

5. Harari states that "When complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital" (121). What was this new type of information?
(a) Topographical information.
(b) Geographical information.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long before the Agricultural Revolution did Sapiens live as hunters and gatherers?

2. Biologists classify organisms into what?

3. To what musician does Harari allude when providing an example of a consumer tribe?

4. In 1700, the world was home to about how many humans?

5. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?

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