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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. Social poverty is defined by Harari as what?
2. The Oceanic World comprised which parts of earth in 1450 AD?
3. Harari uses a discussion of the coin termed "the millares" (173) to illustrate what principle?
4. Which "world" (168) "swallowed up all of the other worlds" (168) within a span of 300 years?
5. 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)?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Harari claims that "credit was not invented in modern Europe" (315), what does he say about its origin instead?
2. What is the definition of the term "memetics" (242) and how do most scholars in the humanities feel about it?
3. What flaw does Harari point out within the philosophies of Postmodernist thinkers?
4. How does Harari support his position that history is moving toward more unified and complex cultures?
5. For what purpose does Harari include the painting called Franklin's Experiment within the chapter entitled The Discovery of Ignorance?
6. Analyze Harari's discussion of syncretism and its connection to both contradiction and success.
7. What is Harari's view of capitalism and what are two counterarguments he addresses?
8. What are the two broad features of history that Harari uses to determine why culture developed as it did?
9. According to Harari, how did the Scientific Revolution affect humankind's notion of progress?
10. What is Harari's purpose for alluding to the launching of the Great Survey of India that occurred on "10 April 1802" (297)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the use of Biblical allusions within Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens.
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 message is Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens sending regarding the nature of shared myths?
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