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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 acquisition of what?
(a) New powers.
(b) Practical application.
(c) Immortality.
(d) True knowledge.

3. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?
(a) 1512.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1687.
(d) 1937.

4. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?
(a) Cowry shells.
(b) Beads.
(c) Wampum.
(d) Colorful threads.

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

6. Poverty, wars, illness, old age, and death are all listed by the author as "the fruits of our what" (264) as a species?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Lives.
(d) Labors.

7. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?
(a) 1200 BC.
(b) 200 BC.
(c) 3500 BC.
(d) 700 BC.

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

9. From what culture did the myth of Gilgamesh spring?
(a) The Incas.
(b) The Babylonians.
(c) The Aztecs.
(d) The ancient Sumer.

10. 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) Cult.
(b) Society.
(c) Culture.
(d) Religion.

11. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?
(a) Recorded for all within the culture to see.
(b) Understood by all members of the culture.
(c) Static.
(d) In constant flux.

12. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?
(a) 1498.
(b) 1501.
(c) 1519.
(d) 1592.

13. To what author does Harari allude when stating the author's depiction of "the liberal regimes of nineteenth-century Europe" giving "priority to individual freedom" (165)?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) The Marquis de Sade.
(c) Albert Camus.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

14. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?
(a) Convertibility and trust.
(b) Trust and sovereignty.
(c) Negotiability and convertibility.
(d) Sovereignty and intrinsic value.

15. The first coins in history were created around what year?
(a) 120 BC.
(b) 640 BC.
(c) 1139 BC.
(d) 240 BC.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?

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

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

5. In what millenium does Harari assert that people began to believe that a single order could rule all of humanity?

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