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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the year 1500, there were about how many Homo sapiens in the world?
(a) 50 million.
(b) 500 million.
(c) 900 million.
(d) 1 billion.

2. The Athenian Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) Greece.
(b) Chile.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Italy.

3. What term does Harari define as "a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order" (209)?
(a) Society.
(b) Religion.
(c) Culture.
(d) Cult.

4. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Scientology.
(c) Confucianism.
(d) Buddhism.

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

6. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?
(a) The justice system.
(b) The barter system.
(c) The stock market system.
(d) The education system.

7. How many points lie on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

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

9. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?
(a) Cowry shells.
(b) Wampum.
(c) Paper bills.
(d) Unmarked metal ingots.

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

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

12. If 100 commodities are traded in the market, how many different exchange rates do buyers and sellers have to know?
(a) 4,950.
(b) 5,094.
(c) 9,450.
(d) 9,540.

13. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?
(a) Material.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Biological.
(d) Financial.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what culture did the myth of Gilgamesh spring?

2. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?

3. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?

4. Poverty, wars, illness, old age, and death are all listed by the author as "the fruits of our what" (264) as a species?

5. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?

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