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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?
(a) Reason.
(b) Progress.
(c) Religion.
(d) Logic.

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

3. The measurement called a sila was equivalent to how many gallons?
(a) A quarter of a gallon.
(b) A half a gallon.
(c) One gallon.
(d) Two gallons.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. By 1450 AD, what percentage of earth's inhabitants lived within a "single mega-world" (167)?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 30 percent.
(c) 60 percent.
(d) 90 percent.

12. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?
(a) A tyrannical leader.
(b) Flexible borders.
(c) An unlimited appetite for power.
(d) A significant number of distinct peoples being ruled.

13. Part Three of Sapiens is entitled "The" what "of Humankind" (162)?
(a) Stupidity.
(b) Crown Jewel.
(c) Unification.
(d) Destruction.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?

2. What causes a particular science to be designated as an exact science?

3. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?

4. Harari asserts that observation is not what?

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

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