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

2. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?
(a) 40,000 years.
(b) 4 million years.
(c) 400,000 years.
(d) 4,000 years.

3. To what event is Harari referring when he names Chapter 5 History's Biggest Fraud?
(a) The Cognitive Revolution.
(b) The Agricultural Revolution.
(c) The Clean Energy Revolution.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

4. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?
(a) Cowry shells.
(b) Wampum.
(c) Unmarked metal ingots.
(d) Paper bills.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari defines the data-processing system invented by the Sumerians as what?

2. Horses had been domesticated by what year in history?

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

4. What is NOT a feat mentioned by Harari as an action taken by Sapiens during their reign?

5. The first mega-empires appeared in what part of the world?

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