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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?
(a) The story of Golem.
(b) The story of The Tower of Babel.
(c) The story of the fox and the grapes.
(d) The story of Icarus.

2. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?
(a) Construction.
(b) Bombs.
(c) Firecrackers.
(d) Medicine.

3. The first coins in history were created around what year?
(a) 1139 BC.
(b) 640 BC.
(c) 120 BC.
(d) 240 BC.

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

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) Society.
(d) Culture.

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

7. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of friends.
(b) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in isolation for too long.
(c) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.
(d) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.

8. Part Three of Sapiens is entitled "The" what "of Humankind" (162)?
(a) Destruction.
(b) Stupidity.
(c) Crown Jewel.
(d) Unification.

9. 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) Colorful threads.
(c) Wampum.
(d) Beads.

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

11. 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) Survival.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Logic.
(d) Mathematics.

12. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?
(a) 250 billion dollars.
(b) 20 billion dollars.
(c) 2 trillion dollars.
(d) 100 billion dollars.

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

14. Harari asserts that observation is not what?
(a) Certainty.
(b) Religion.
(c) Incontrovertible proof.
(d) Knowledge.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?

4. The sum total of banknotes and coins existing in the world, according to Harari, is what?

5. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

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