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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is hubris?
(a) Human ingenuity.
(b) Humor.
(c) A system of agricultural processes.
(d) An unreasonable and blasphemous show of confidence.

2. 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) Most of Central America and parts of North America.
(d) The continent of Australia.

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

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

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

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

7. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came in" (249) what year?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1929.

8. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?
(a) The story of The Tower of Babel.
(b) The story of the fox and the grapes.
(c) The story of Golem.
(d) The story of Icarus.

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

10. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?
(a) The Babylonians.
(b) The Mayans.
(c) The Incans.
(d) The Aztecs.

11. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Construction.
(c) Firecrackers.
(d) Bombs.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?

2. On what date did humans land on the moon?

3. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?

4. If 100 commodities are traded in the market, how many different exchange rates do buyers and sellers have to know?

5. The first coins in history were created around what year?

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