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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 is hubris?
2. What other object did coins replace when they came along in history?
3. In what year was King Richard the Lionheart struck by an arrow, leading to his death two weeks later?
4. Harari asserts that observation is not what?
5. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Discuss Harari's treatment of the phenomenon of imperialism.
3. What is Harari's message regarding people's tendency to discriminate against outsiders?
4. What is the author's view of the existence of an authentic, pure, and untouched culture?
5. Analyze Harari's discussion of syncretism and its connection to both contradiction and success.
6. What does Harari say is the key to understanding a particular culture?
7. When Harari claims that "credit was not invented in modern Europe" (315), what does he say about its origin instead?
8. According to Harari, how did the Scientific Revolution affect humankind's notion of progress?
9. How does Yuval Noah Harari define culture and what does he assert about its mutability?
10. What are the two broad features of history that Harari uses to determine why culture developed as it did?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the author’s use of characterization methods to portray his own persona within the narrative. What effects do these characterization methods have on the themes and messages inherent in Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens.
Essay Topic 3
How is the theme of subjective well-being portrayed in Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens? Examine the author's treatment of and messages regarding subjective well-being throughout the book.
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