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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Harari asserts that the last 500 years have demonstrated an "unprecedented growth in human" (248) what?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Power.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Compassion.

4. 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) Agnosticism.
(b) Flaws.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Mistakes.

5. 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.

6. On what date did humans land on the moon?
(a) July 20, 1969.
(b) June 8, 1969.
(c) February 19, 1969.
(d) August 12, 1969.

7. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?
(a) 1512.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1687.
(d) 1969.

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

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

10. Biological 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 occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of health.
(c) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.
(d) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in quarantined conditions for too long.

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

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

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

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

15. How many years did the journey take when Magellan circumnavigated the earth for the first time?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?

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

3. In what millenium does Harari assert that people began to believe that a single order could rule all of humanity?

4. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?

5. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?

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