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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) Logic.
(c) Religion.
(d) Progress.

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

3. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.
(b) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of friends.
(c) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in isolation for too long.
(d) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.

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

5. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?
(a) 100 billion dollars.
(b) 20 billion dollars.
(c) 250 billion dollars.
(d) 2 trillion dollars.

6. How much money that exists in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) More than 10 trillion dollars.
(b) More than 5 trillion dollars.
(c) More than 20 trillion dollars.
(d) More than 50 trillion dollars.

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

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

9. 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) Religion.
(c) Society.
(d) Culture.

10. How many years did the journey take when Magellan circumnavigated the earth for the first time?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

14. What is NOT a point on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?
(a) Logic.
(b) Research.
(c) Resources.
(d) Power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The sum total of money throughout the world, according to Harari, is what?

2. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?

3. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years" (249) was what event?

4. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?

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

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