2. What does Harari NOT list as a factor that prevents "people from realising that the order organising our lives exists only in their imagination" (112)?
(a) The imagined order shapes our desires.
(b) The imagined order is inter-subjective.
(c) The imagined order is subjective.
(d) The imagined order is embedded in the material world.

3. Harari uses the example of a child's imaginary friend to demonstrate the qualities of what term?
(a) Subjectivity.
(b) Intra-subjectivity.
(c) Inter-subjectivity.
(d) Objectivity.

4. The main argument present within the work entitled The New Instrument is that knowledge is what?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Power.
(c) A tool of survival.
(d) Helping humankind to progress.

5. The Code of Hammurabi was written in what year?
(a) 1352 BC.
(b) 1776 AD.
(c) 1776 BC.
(d) 1352 AD.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?

3. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?

4. What objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?

5. The sum total of money throughout the world, according to Harari, is what?

(see the answer key)

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