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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. Biological poverty is defined by Harari as what?
2. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways, Harari states one of the ways. He says that one quality of modern science is "its willingness to admit" (250) what?
3. Harari asserts that "Until the Scientific Revolution most human cultures did not believe in" (264) what?
4. When stating that "modern science differs from all previous traditions of knowledge in three major ways" (250), Harari states that one quality of modern science is its acquisition of what?
5. For what purpose did the inventing country of gunpowder originally use their new invention for many years?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Harari's view of capitalism and what are two counterarguments he addresses?
2. What is the author's view of the existence of an authentic, pure, and untouched culture?
3. When Harari claims that "credit was not invented in modern Europe" (315), what does he say about its origin instead?
4. What connections does Harari draw among capitalism, modern science, and the emergence of European imperialism?
5. How does Yuval Noah Harari define culture and what does he assert about its mutability?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. How does Harari define the term "culturism" (303)?
9. What flaw does Harari point out within the philosophies of Postmodernist thinkers?
10. What distinction does Harari make between biological poverty and social poverty?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
How does the author's use of the first and second person point of view serve the text’s purposes over the course of Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens? Discuss how the author's choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
What message is Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens sending regarding the nature of shared myths?
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