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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 centrality of observation" (251) and its centrality of what other element?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Logic.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Survival.

3. 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) Lives.
(c) Labors.
(d) Ignorance.

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

5. History's first known money consisted of what material?
(a) Silk.
(b) Barley.
(c) Copper.
(d) Gold.

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

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

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

9. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1522.
(d) 1602.

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

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

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

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

14. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?
(a) Pythagoras.
(b) Plato.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Francis Bacon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?

2. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?

3. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?

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

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

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