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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?
(a) Beads.
(b) Colorful threads.
(c) Wampum.
(d) Cowry shells.

7. The sum total of money throughout the world, according to Harari, is what?
(a) 22 trillion dollars.
(b) 60 trillion dollars.
(c) 90 billion dollars.
(d) 523 trillion dollars.

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

9. From what culture did the myth of Gilgamesh spring?
(a) The Aztecs.
(b) The Incas.
(c) The ancient Sumer.
(d) The Babylonians.

10. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?
(a) 1399.
(b) 1599.
(c) 1199.
(d) 1699.

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

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

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

15. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?
(a) Unmarked metal ingots.
(b) Paper bills.
(c) Wampum.
(d) Cowry shells.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?

2. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?

3. The first coins in history were created around what year?

4. How many years did the journey take when Magellan circumnavigated the earth for the first time?

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

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