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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 objects were used as money "for about 4,000 years all over Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Oceania" (177)?

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

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

4. Harari asserts that the last 500 years have demonstrated an "unprecedented growth in human" (248) what?

5. What does Harari NOT list among the "premodern traditions of knowledge" he discusses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What flaw does Harari point out within the philosophies of Postmodernist thinkers?

2. What is Harari's view of capitalism and what are two counterarguments he addresses?

3. How does Harari support his position that history is moving toward more unified and complex cultures?

4. What is the author's view of the existence of an authentic, pure, and untouched culture?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

What ultimate message is Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens sending about the future of the human race and how does he go about sending this message to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Perform a biographical criticism of Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens by researching the author's life and work. Be sure to create a strong and specific claim focused on this particular book and then support that claim with quotes from the book and from your author research.

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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