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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Aztec Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) Peru.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Greece.
(d) New Zealand.

2. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways, Harari states one of the ways. He says that one quality of modern science is "its willingness to admit" (250) what?
(a) Mistakes.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Flaws.
(d) Agnosticism.

3. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?
(a) The Afro-Asian world.
(b) The Mesoamerican world.
(c) The Aztec world.
(d) The Andean world.

4. On what date did humans land on the moon?
(a) June 8, 1969.
(b) February 19, 1969.
(c) July 20, 1969.
(d) August 12, 1969.

5. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?
(a) 1399.
(b) 1199.
(c) 1599.
(d) 1699.

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

7. 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) Philosophy.
(b) Logic.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Survival.

8. Harari asserts that observation is not what?
(a) Incontrovertible proof.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Certainty.
(d) Religion.

9. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?
(a) Wampum.
(b) Beads.
(c) Cowry shells.
(d) Colorful threads.

10. What causes a particular science to be designated as an exact science?
(a) Its body of proofs and laws.
(b) Its focus on the laws of physics.
(c) Its focus on biology.
(d) Its use of mathematical tools.

11. The main argument present within the work entitled The New Instrument is that knowledge is what?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Power.
(c) Helping humankind to progress.
(d) A tool of survival.

12. The Australian World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
(a) Australia and eastern Asia.
(b) Most of western South America.
(c) Most of Central America and parts of North America.
(d) Only the continent of Australia.

13. 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 occurs when a person has been kept in isolation for too long.
(c) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.
(d) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.

14. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?
(a) 371.
(b) 276.
(c) 189.
(d) 48.

15. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?
(a) 500 AD.
(b) 3000 BC.
(c) 4000 BC.
(d) 2000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years" (249) was what event?

2. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?

3. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?

4. 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?

5. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?

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