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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Empires are noted as "one of the main reasons for the drastic reduction in" (190) what?
(a) The number of religions practiced.
(b) Human diversity.
(c) Peaceful conditions.
(d) Material wealth.

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

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

5. 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 3 billion dollars.
(c) Less than 900 million dollars.
(d) Less than 1 trillion dollars.

6. On what date did humans land on the moon?
(a) June 8, 1969.
(b) July 20, 1969.
(c) August 12, 1969.
(d) February 19, 1969.

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

8. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?
(a) Flexible borders.
(b) A significant number of distinct peoples being ruled.
(c) An unlimited appetite for power.
(d) A tyrannical leader.

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

10. In what year did Magellan circumnavigate the earth for the first time?
(a) 1522.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1499.
(d) 1602.

11. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?
(a) 2 trillion dollars.
(b) 100 billion dollars.
(c) 250 billion dollars.
(d) 20 billion dollars.

12. Harari states that "Today anyone with" what kind of income "can safely and easily circumnavigate the globe" (248)?
(a) A fixed income.
(b) A middle-class income.
(c) An upper-class income.
(d) A white collar income.

13. How much money that exists in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) More than 10 trillion dollars.
(b) More than 5 trillion dollars.
(c) More than 20 trillion dollars.
(d) More than 50 trillion dollars.

14. What is hubris?
(a) A system of agricultural processes.
(b) An unreasonable and blasphemous show of confidence.
(c) Human ingenuity.
(d) Humor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Harari states that the leading project of what revolution is to give humankind eternal life?

5. In what year did Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors invade Mexico?

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