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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 uses apples to point out the shortcomings in what system?
3. Harari asserts that "an empire is defined solely by its" (190) what?
4. Part Three of Sapiens is entitled "The" what "of Humankind" (162)?
5. What causes a particular science to be designated as an exact science?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Harari say is the key to understanding a particular culture?
2. What evidence does Harari provide for his assertion that "the practices of empire-builders were entangled with those of scientists"? (296)
3. How does Yuval Noah Harari define culture and what does he assert about its mutability?
4. 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?
5. What does Harari see as the significance of the First Millennium BC?
6. According to Harari, how did the Scientific Revolution affect humankind's notion of progress?
7. For what purpose does Harari include the painting called Franklin's Experiment within the chapter entitled The Discovery of Ignorance?
8. What distinction does Harari make between biological poverty and social poverty?
9. Discuss Harari's treatment of the phenomenon of imperialism.
10. What is Harari's view of capitalism and what are two counterarguments he addresses?
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
Read the interview with the author included in the back of Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens. Write an essay explaining the connection between one of the author’s answers and a major theme presented within the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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