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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The sum total of banknotes and coins existing in the world, according to Harari, is what?
(a) Less than 900 million dollars.
(b) Less than 6 trillion dollars.
(c) Less than 1 trillion dollars.
(d) Less than 3 billion dollars.

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

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

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

6. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways, Harari states one of the ways. He says that one quality of modern science is "its willingness to admit" (250) what?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Flaws.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) Agnosticism.

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

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

9. In what year was the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument published?
(a) 1864.
(b) 1438.
(c) 1512.
(d) 1620.

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

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

12. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?
(a) The Mayans.
(b) The Babylonians.
(c) The Incans.
(d) The Aztecs.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years" (249) was what event?

2. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?

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