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

2. What causes a particular science to be designated as an exact science?
(a) Its body of proofs and laws.
(b) Its use of mathematical tools.
(c) Its focus on the laws of physics.
(d) Its focus on biology.

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

4. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?
(a) 100 billion dollars.
(b) 2 trillion dollars.
(c) 250 billion dollars.
(d) 20 billion dollars.

5. Around what year did the first money appear in the world?
(a) 500 AD.
(b) 2000 BC.
(c) 4000 BC.
(d) 3000 BC.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?

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. On what date did humans land on the moon?

5. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is Harari's view of capitalism and what are two counterarguments he addresses?

8. What distinction does Harari make between biological poverty and social poverty?

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

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