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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years" (249) was what event?
(a) The detonation of the first atomic bomb.
(b) The onset of World War II.
(c) The cloning of a sheep.
(d) The onset of World War I.

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

3. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1522.
(c) 1602.
(d) 1620.

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

5. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
(a) The continent of Australia.
(b) Most of western South America.
(c) Most of Central America and parts of North America.
(d) Most of the islands of the south-western Pacific Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1450 AD, what percentage of earth's inhabitants lived within a "single mega-world" (167)?

2. The measurement called a sila was equivalent to how many gallons?

3. The sum total of banknotes and coins existing in the world, according to Harari, is what?

4. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?

5. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What distinction does Harari make between biological poverty and social poverty?

2. What is Harari's view of capitalism and what are two counterarguments he addresses?

3. What does Harari say is the key to understanding a particular culture?

4. What does Harari see as the significance of the First Millennium BC?

5. What is Harari's purpose for alluding to the launching of the Great Survey of India that occurred on "10 April 1802" (297)?

6. What is the definition of the term "memetics" (242) and how do most scholars in the humanities feel about it?

7. For what purpose does Harari include the painting called Franklin's Experiment within the chapter entitled The Discovery of Ignorance?

8. When Harari claims that "credit was not invented in modern Europe" (315), what does he say about its origin instead?

9. How does Harari link the state of the modern economy to his view that quality of life is not guaranteed or predetermined to improve as time passes?

10. What is Harari's message regarding people's tendency to discriminate against outsiders?

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