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

2. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came in" (249) what year?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1945.

3. Social 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 friends.
(c) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in isolation for too long.
(d) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.

4. The people of what country invented gunpowder?
(a) Italy.
(b) China.
(c) France.
(d) Mexico.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?

3. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?

4. Harari asserts that observation is not what?

5. The first coins in history were created around what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harari support his position that history is moving toward more unified and complex cultures?

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

3. How does Yuval Noah Harari define culture and what does he assert about its mutability?

4. What evidence does Harari use to demonstrate the profound effect that empires and their belief systems have had on history, even among those cultures that consider themselves anti-imperialist?

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

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

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

8. How does Harari define the term "culturism" (303)?

9. 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?

10. What is Harari's purpose for alluding to the launching of the Great Survey of India that occurred on "10 April 1802" (297)?

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