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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Aztec Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?
(a) Peru.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Greece.
(d) New Zealand.

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years" (249) was what event?
(a) The onset of World War I.
(b) The cloning of a sheep.
(c) The onset of World War II.
(d) The detonation of the first atomic bomb.

7. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?
(a) The Mesoamerican world.
(b) The Afro-Asian world.
(c) The Aztec world.
(d) The Andean world.

8. 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) Practical application.
(b) Immortality.
(c) New powers.
(d) True knowledge.

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

10. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) 40.
(b) 75.
(c) 50.
(d) 90.

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

12. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?
(a) 4000 BC.
(b) 500 AD.
(c) 2000 BC.
(d) 3000 BC.

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

14. Prior to 1500, what two fields were considered to be entirely separate from one another?
(a) The arts and cultural traditions.
(b) Science and technology.
(c) Mathematics and psychology.
(d) The arts and mathematics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?

2. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?

3. The people of what country invented gunpowder?

4. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?

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

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