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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?
(a) Material.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Biological.
(d) Financial.

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

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

4. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of friends.
(b) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.
(c) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in isolation for too long.
(d) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.

5. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) 50.
(b) 75.
(c) 40.
(d) 90.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is hubris?

3. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came in" (249) what year?

4. Of the 24 Australian animal species weighing 100 pounds or more, how many became extinct?

5. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?

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