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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. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?
(a) 1602.
(b) 1499.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1522.
2. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?
(a) The Mongols.
(b) The Aztecs.
(c) The Incas.
(d) The Ottomans.
3. 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) The Marquis de Sade.
(b) Albert Camus.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.
4. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?
(a) The Hammurabi Code.
(b) Braille.
(c) Latin script.
(d) Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
5. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?
(a) On the Afro-Asian landmass.
(b) On the Austral-Asian landmass.
(c) On the Euro-Asian landmass.
(d) On the landmass of the Americas.
Short Answer Questions
1. Poverty, wars, illness, old age, and death are all listed by the author as "the fruits of our what" (264) as a species?
2. In what century did cannons emerge to become a decisive factor in battle?
3. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?
4. Which revolution took place in 1848?
5. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways" (250), Harari states that one quality of modern science is its acquisition of what?
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