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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?
(a) An upper-class income.
(b) A white collar income.
(c) A middle-class income.
(d) A fixed income.

2. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?
(a) The barter system.
(b) The justice system.
(c) The education system.
(d) The stock market system.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?

2. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?

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

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

5. What causes a particular science to be designated as an exact science?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Harari's treatment of the phenomenon of imperialism.

2. What connections does Harari draw among capitalism, modern science, and the emergence of European imperialism?

3. What is Harari's message regarding people's tendency to discriminate against outsiders?

4. How does Harari link the state of the modern economy to his view that quality of life is not guaranteed or predetermined to improve as time passes?

5. What are the two broad features of history that Harari uses to determine why culture developed as it did?

6. After Harari describes the rise of Europe as a locus of power in the world, what caveat does he make?

7. What evidence does Harari provide for his assertion that "the practices of empire-builders were entangled with those of scientists"? (296)

8. For what purpose does Harari include the painting called Franklin's Experiment within the chapter entitled The Discovery of Ignorance?

9. When Harari claims that "credit was not invented in modern Europe" (315), what does he say about its origin instead?

10. What is Harari's view of how the Cook expedition marked a turning point within European history?

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