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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. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?
(a) Pythagoras.
(b) Plato.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Francis Bacon.

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

3. Since around what year have most humans lived in empires?
(a) 200 BC.
(b) 1200 BC.
(c) 3500 BC.
(d) 700 BC.

4. Harari states that the leading project of what revolution is to give humankind eternal life?
(a) The Cognitive Revolution.
(b) The Immortality Revolution.
(c) The Logic Revolution.
(d) The Scientific Revolution.

5. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?
(a) The Mesoamerican world.
(b) The Afro-Asian world.
(c) The Andean world.
(d) The Aztec world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?

3. The Andean World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

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

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the author's view of the existence of an authentic, pure, and untouched culture?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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