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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. 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 centrality of observation" (251) and its centrality of what other element?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Survival.
(d) Logic.

2. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?
(a) The Incans.
(b) The Babylonians.
(c) The Aztecs.
(d) The Mayans.

3. By what year does Harari assert that "the main wave of domestication was over" (77)?
(a) 3,500 BC.
(b) 1,000 BC.
(c) 9,000 BC.
(d) 5,000 BC.

4. Harari asserts that "Prior to the Cognitive Revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively" (63) where?
(a) On the landmass of the Americas.
(b) On the Afro-Asian landmass.
(c) On the Austral-Asian landmass.
(d) On the Euro-Asian landmass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari describes an important moment long ago when "a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother" (5). How long ago did this occur?

2. In 2000, the world was home to about how many humans?

3. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?

4. For how long before the dawn of the Cognitive Revolution did Sapiens live as farmers and herders?

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

(see the answer key)

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