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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. What sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?
(a) Croquet.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Basketball.

2. What fact does Harari states "used to be one of history's most closely guarded secrets" (4)?
(a) Homo sapiens belong to a family.
(b) Homo sapiens can survive on other planets.
(c) Homo sapiens invented language.
(d) Homo sapiens evolved from apes.

3. Harari asserts that "no noteworthy plant or animal has been domesticated in the last" (77) how many years?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 500.

4. In a band of 50 individuals, Harari states that there are how many one-on-one relationships?
(a) 6,230.
(b) 865.
(c) 2,220.
(d) 1,225.

5. Animals are said to belong to the same species if they are able to take what action?
(a) They share the same DNA traits.
(b) They are able to communicate with one another.
(c) They are physically able to mate.
(d) They are able to produce fertile offspring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the term quipu?

2. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?

3. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?

4. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

5. 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)?

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