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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. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in quarantined conditions for too long.
(b) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of health.
(c) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.
(d) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.

2. Who wrote The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Plato.
(d) Leonardo da Vinci.

3. In the year 1500, there were about how many Homo sapiens in the world?
(a) 900 million.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 500 million.
(d) 1 billion.

4. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?
(a) 48.
(b) 276.
(c) 189.
(d) 371.

5. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?
(a) Firecrackers.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Construction.
(d) Bombs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The main argument present within the work entitled The New Instrument is that knowledge is what?

3. At the time that Cortes invaded Mexico, what did its citizens call themselves?

4. Part Three of Sapiens is entitled "The" what "of Humankind" (162)?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Harari's view of how the Cook expedition marked a turning point within European history?

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