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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The people of what country invented gunpowder?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Italy.
(c) China.
(d) France.

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

3. 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) Immortality.
(c) True knowledge.
(d) Practical application.

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

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

6. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?
(a) 1599.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1399.
(d) 1199.

7. 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 Third Millennium BC.
(c) The First Millennium BC.
(d) The First Millennium AD.

8. 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) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) The Marquis de Sade.
(c) Albert Camus.
(d) Charles Dickens.

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

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

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

12. 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) In constant flux.
(c) Understood by all members of the culture.
(d) Static.

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

14. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Greed.
(d) Diversity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?

3. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?

4. The Aztec Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?

5. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?

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