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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 all money in the world "exists only on computer servers" (178)?

2. Who was the author of the scientific manifesto entitled The New Instrument?

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

4. The first coins in history were created around what year?

5. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What connections does Harari draw among capitalism, modern science, and the emergence of European imperialism?

5. For what purpose does Harari include the painting called Franklin's Experiment within the chapter entitled The Discovery of Ignorance?

6. What are the two broad features of history that Harari uses to determine why culture developed as it did?

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

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

9. What is the definition of the term "memetics" (242) and how do most scholars in the humanities feel about it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the author's message regarding imagined communities and their role in the history and future of humankind?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What ultimate message is Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens sending about the nature and value of continually examining the history of one’s own civilization?

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