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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes a particular science to be designated as an exact science?
(a) Its body of proofs and laws.
(b) Its use of mathematical tools.
(c) Its focus on the laws of physics.
(d) Its focus on biology.

2. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?
(a) Logic.
(b) Progress.
(c) Religion.
(d) Reason.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In what century did cannons emerge to become a decisive factor in battle?
(a) The ninth.
(b) The fifteenth.
(c) The thirteenth.
(d) The fifth.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?

2. Prior to 1500, what two fields were considered to be entirely separate from one another?

3. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?

4. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?

5. The Athenian Empire at its pinnacle was much smaller than what modern-day nation?

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