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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what century did cannons emerge to become a decisive factor in battle?
(a) The fifth.
(b) The fifteenth.
(c) The thirteenth.
(d) The ninth.

2. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?
(a) 2 trillion dollars.
(b) 20 billion dollars.
(c) 250 billion dollars.
(d) 100 billion dollars.

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

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

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

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

7. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?
(a) An upper-class income.
(b) A middle-class income.
(c) A white collar income.
(d) A fixed income.

8. 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 20 trillion dollars.
(d) More than 10 trillion dollars.

9. Harari states that the leading project of what revolution is to give humankind eternal life?
(a) The Scientific Revolution.
(b) The Immortality Revolution.
(c) The Logic Revolution.
(d) The Cognitive Revolution.

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

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

12. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?
(a) Cultural diversity and flexible borders.
(b) Its territorial extent.
(c) Its form of government.
(d) The size of its population.

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

14. Prior to 1500, what two fields were considered to be entirely separate from one another?
(a) The arts and mathematics.
(b) The arts and cultural traditions.
(c) Mathematics and psychology.
(d) Science and technology.

15. The sum total of money throughout the world, according to Harari, is what?
(a) 22 trillion dollars.
(b) 523 trillion dollars.
(c) 60 trillion dollars.
(d) 90 billion dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?

2. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?

3. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?

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

5. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?

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