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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 people of what country invented gunpowder?
(a) China.
(b) France.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Italy.
2. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?
(a) Plato.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Francis Bacon.
(d) Pythagoras.
3. Harari uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?
(a) The justice system.
(b) The stock market system.
(c) The barter system.
(d) The education system.
4. History's first known money consisted of what material?
(a) Gold.
(b) Silk.
(c) Barley.
(d) Copper.
5. Harari states that money is based on what two universal principles?
(a) Convertibility and trust.
(b) Negotiability and convertibility.
(c) Sovereignty and intrinsic value.
(d) Trust and sovereignty.
Short Answer Questions
1. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?
2. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
3. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
4. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?
5. What is NOT a point on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the two broad features of history that Harari uses to determine why culture developed as it did?
2. What is the author's view of the existence of an authentic, pure, and untouched culture?
3. 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?
4. Analyze Harari's discussion of syncretism and its connection to both contradiction and success.
5. What is Harari's purpose for alluding to the launching of the Great Survey of India that occurred on "10 April 1802" (297)?
6. According to Harari, how did the Scientific Revolution affect humankind's notion of progress?
7. What does Harari say is the key to understanding a particular culture?
8. What is the definition of the term "memetics" (242) and how do most scholars in the humanities feel about it?
9. What is Harari's view of how the Cook expedition marked a turning point within European history?
10. What is Harari's message regarding people's tendency to discriminate against outsiders?
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