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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. Harari asserts that the last 500 years have demonstrated an "unprecedented growth in human" (248) what?
(a) Power.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Medicine.

2. Harari states that "the most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years" (249) was what event?
(a) The onset of World War II.
(b) The cloning of a sheep.
(c) The detonation of the first atomic bomb.
(d) The onset of World War I.

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

4. 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) The Marquis de Sade.
(c) Albert Camus.
(d) Charles Dickens.

5. Harari states that the leading project of what revolution is to give humankind eternal life?
(a) The Immortality Revolution.
(b) The Cognitive Revolution.
(c) The Logic Revolution.
(d) The Scientific Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Poverty, wars, illness, old age, and death are all listed by the author as "the fruits of our what" (264) as a species?

3. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?

4. In the year 1500, there were about how many Homo sapiens in the world?

5. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Harari's purpose for alluding to the launching of the Great Survey of India that occurred on "10 April 1802" (297)?

6. What is Harari's view of capitalism and what are two counterarguments he addresses?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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