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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. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?
2. The total value of goods and services produced by humans in the year 1500 was how much in 2015 money?
3. The first coins in history were created around what year?
4. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?
5. In the year 1500, there were about how many Homo sapiens in the world?
Short Essay Questions
1. What evidence does Harari use to demonstrate the profound effect that empires and their belief systems have had on history, even among those cultures that consider themselves anti-imperialist?
2. What is Harari's view of capitalism and what are two counterarguments he addresses?
3. What evidence does Harari provide for his assertion that "the practices of empire-builders were entangled with those of scientists"? (296)
4. What is Harari's purpose for alluding to the launching of the Great Survey of India that occurred on "10 April 1802" (297)?
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. What is the definition of the term "memetics" (242) and how do most scholars in the humanities feel about it?
8. What connections does Harari draw among capitalism, modern science, and the emergence of European imperialism?
9. What flaw does Harari point out within the philosophies of Postmodernist thinkers?
10. When Harari claims that "credit was not invented in modern Europe" (315), what does he say about its origin instead?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What message is Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens sending regarding the source of human unhappiness?
Essay Topic 2
How does the author use sensory details in order to paint a vivid portrait of the historical and sociological events depicted within Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens? Discuss at least two passages that include extensive use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's message regarding imagined communities and their role in the history and future of humankind?
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