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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what millenium does Harari assert that people began to believe that a single order could rule all of humanity?
(a) The Third Millennium BC.
(b) The First Millennium AD.
(c) The Second Millennium BC.
(d) The First Millennium BC.

2. The main argument present within the work entitled The New Instrument is that knowledge is what?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) A tool of survival.
(c) Helping humankind to progress.
(d) Power.

3. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?
(a) 1519.
(b) 1498.
(c) 1501.
(d) 1592.

4. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Plato.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci.

5. Who invaded and brought an end to the Song Empire?
(a) The Aztecs.
(b) The Ottomans.
(c) The Incas.
(d) The Mongols.

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

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

8. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?
(a) Understanding that all cultures embrace a sense of unity.
(b) Understanding that all cultures embrace internal contradictions.
(c) Understanding that all cultures embrace specific jargon.
(d) Understanding that all cultures embrace a form of power structure.

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

10. 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.

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

12. Harari states that the leading project of what revolution is to give humankind eternal life?
(a) The Immortality Revolution.
(b) The Logic Revolution.
(c) The Cognitive Revolution.
(d) The Scientific Revolution.

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

14. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?
(a) Cultural diversity and flexible borders.
(b) Its territorial extent.
(c) Its form of government.
(d) The size of its population.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

2. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came in" (249) what year?

3. History's first known money consisted of what material?

4. Empires are noted as "one of the main reasons for the drastic reduction in" (190) what?

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

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