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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. 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)?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) The Marquis de Sade.
(d) Albert Camus.

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

3. More than what percentage of all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?
(a) 90.
(b) 75.
(c) 50.
(d) 40.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Aztec Empire ruled how many different tribes and peoples?

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

3. Most scholars of culture have concluded that every culture's "typical beliefs, norms, and values" (163) are what?

4. What is NOT listed among the elements that qualify a political order as an empire?

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

2. According to Harari, how did the Scientific Revolution affect humankind's notion of progress?

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

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

5. What does Harari say is the key to understanding a particular culture?

6. How does Harari define the term "culturism" (303)?

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

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

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

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

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