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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Harari asserts that barley has what type of intrinsic value?
(a) Financial.
(b) Aesthetic.
(c) Material.
(d) Biological.

3. 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.

4. In what century did cannons emerge to become a decisive factor in battle?
(a) The fifth.
(b) The thirteenth.
(c) The fifteenth.
(d) The ninth.

5. What term does Harari define as "a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order" (209)?
(a) Cult.
(b) Religion.
(c) Society.
(d) Culture.

6. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Greed.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Diversity.

7. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
(a) Most of Central America and parts of North America.
(b) The continent of Australia.
(c) Most of western South America.
(d) Most of the islands of the south-western Pacific Ocean.

8. By 1450 AD, what percentage of earth's inhabitants lived within a "single mega-world" (167)?
(a) 90 percent.
(b) 60 percent.
(c) 30 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

9. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?
(a) Cowry shells.
(b) Colorful threads.
(c) Wampum.
(d) Beads.

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

11. 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?
(a) Logic.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Survival.

12. The measurement called a sila was equivalent to how many gallons?
(a) A half a gallon.
(b) A quarter of a gallon.
(c) Two gallons.
(d) One gallon.

13. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?
(a) Unmarked metal ingots.
(b) Paper bills.
(c) Wampum.
(d) Cowry shells.

14. What does Harari assert is the key to understanding a particular culture?
(a) Understanding that all cultures embrace internal contradictions.
(b) Understanding that all cultures embrace a sense of unity.
(c) Understanding that all cultures embrace specific jargon.
(d) Understanding that all cultures embrace a form of power structure.

15. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?
(a) Its form of government.
(b) Its territorial extent.
(c) Cultural diversity and flexible borders.
(d) The size of its population.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?

2. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?

3. To what author does Harari allude when stating the author's depiction of "the liberal regimes of nineteenth-century Europe" giving "priority to individual freedom" (165)?

4. Harari asserts that the last 500 years have demonstrated an "unprecedented growth in human" (248) what?

5. How much money that exists in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?

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