1. Various species of humans began "going after large animals" (67) during hunting around how long ago?
(a) 40,000 years ago.
(b) 4000 years ago.
(c) 4 million years ago.
(d) 400,000 years ago.

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

3. In what year was the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument published?
(a) 1512.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1438.
(d) 1864.

4. What is NOT a point on the Scientific Revolution feedback loop image provided by the author?
(a) Resources.
(b) Research.
(c) Logic.
(d) Power.

5. Prior to which revolution does Harari state there had been no clear correlation between power and happiness" (378)?
(a) The Cognitive Revolution.
(b) The Agricultural Revolution.
(c) The Scientific Revolution.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?

3. By the first century AD, how many million foragers remained on earth?

4. Whom does Harari name as the culprit behind the negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution on Homo sapiens?

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

(see the answer key)

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