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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. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways, Harari states one of the ways. He says that one quality of modern science is "its willingness to admit" (250) what?
(a) Flaws.
(b) Agnosticism.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Mistakes.

2. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?
(a) A state that occurs when a person experiences a sudden loss of health.
(b) A state that endanger's a person's life due to a lack of food and shelter.
(c) A state that withholds from a person opportunities that are available to others.
(d) A state that occurs when a person has been kept in quarantined conditions for too long.

3. 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) Society.
(b) Cult.
(c) Culture.
(d) Religion.

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

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 acquisition of what?
(a) Immortality.
(b) New powers.
(c) True knowledge.
(d) Practical application.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT listed among the tales that demonstrate the negative effects of hubris on the individual?

2. On what date did humans land on the moon?

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

5. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What flaw does Harari point out within the philosophies of Postmodernist thinkers?

3. What does Harari see as the significance of the First Millennium BC?

4. How does Harari support his position that history is moving toward more unified and complex cultures?

5. How does Yuval Noah Harari define culture and what does he assert about its mutability?

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

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

8. How does Harari link the state of the modern economy to his view that quality of life is not guaranteed or predetermined to improve as time passes?

9. Analyze Harari's discussion of syncretism and its connection to both contradiction and success.

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

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