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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?
2. Harari states that a typical forager 30,000 years ago had access to how many types of sweet foods?
3. Harari's purpose for including an image of the Declaration of Independence of the United States is to define the United States using what term?
4. What sport does Harari use to demonstrate his point about a shared set of rules?
5. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the author's claim concerning the luxury trap?
2. What evidence does Harari provide for his conclusion that foragers had been better off than their counterparts living after the dawn of the Agricultural Revolution?
3. For what purpose does Harari make particular points about extinction in the final passages of Chapter Four?
4. What examples does the author provide for his claim that societal orders are imagined, rather than objective?
5. How does Harari define the term history?
6. What types of examples does Harari provide when he discusses concepts that help to structure order and cooperation, but do not actually exist in tangible form?
7. What is the function of a template for collective action within a society?
8. What are two examples of templates for collective action?
9. Harari uses his observation about foraging sapiens versus agricultural sapiens to support what larger claim within the book?
10. How does the author use the example about insects' wings to make his point about there being no single "natural" (147) way to live?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens employ the use or rejection of fallacy and how does the inclusion or discussion of fallacy help the author to prove particular points made within the text?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's decision to include humor within the text of Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens. What purpose did the author have in mind when including these instances of humor and how does the inclusion of these instances support the overarching themes and messages of the text?
Essay Topic 3
Examine how Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens invites readers to learn particular lessons from the history of humankind and to apply those lessons to their own lives in the modern world. How does Harari accomplish these goals and how do these goals relate to the overarching themes of the text?
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