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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.
(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 occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of friends.

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

3. In what millenium does Harari assert that people began to believe that a single order could rule all of humanity?
(a) The Second Millennium BC.
(b) The First Millennium AD.
(c) The First Millennium BC.
(d) The Third Millennium BC.

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

5. Harari asserts that the last 500 years have demonstrated an "unprecedented growth in human" (248) what?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Power.
(d) Compassion.

6. What is NOT a point on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?
(a) Logic.
(b) Research.
(c) Power.
(d) Resources.

7. How many years did the journey take when Magellan circumnavigated the earth for the first time?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

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

9. Empires are noted as "one of the main reasons for the drastic reduction in" (190) what?
(a) Material wealth.
(b) Peaceful conditions.
(c) The number of religions practiced.
(d) Human diversity.

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

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

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

13. History's first known money consisted of what material?
(a) Copper.
(b) Silk.
(c) Barley.
(d) Gold.

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

15. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?
(a) The Incas.
(b) The Aztecs.
(c) The Ottomans.
(d) The Mongols.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument published?

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

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

4. Harari asserts that observation is not what?

5. 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?

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