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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?
(a) Material.
(b) Financial.
(c) Biological.
(d) Aesthetic.

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

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

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

12. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?
(a) 276.
(b) 48.
(c) 371.
(d) 189.

13. 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.

14. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?
(a) Understood by all members of the culture.
(b) Static.
(c) In constant flux.
(d) Recorded for all within the culture to see.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?

2. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?

3. The Australian World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

4. Harari asserts that the last 500 years have demonstrated an "unprecedented growth in human" (248) what?

5. What is NOT a point on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?

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