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

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

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?
(a) Immortality.
(b) True knowledge.
(c) Practical application.
(d) New powers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?

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

3. In what year was The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy published?

4. The Mesoamerican World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

5. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Analyze Harari's discussion of syncretism and its connection to both contradiction and success.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the definition of the term "memetics" (242) and how do most scholars in the humanities feel about it?

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 view of how the Cook expedition marked a turning point within European history?

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