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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. More than what percentage of the calories that feed humanity come from plants domesticated by our ancestors between 9,500 and 3,500 BC?

2. What is NOT provided as an example of a full script?

3. The mammoths of Wrangel disappeared about how long ago?

4. Peas and lentils had been domesticated by what year in history?

5. The Babylonian empire had about how many subjects during its peak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author name as the most important step in convincing people to believe a shared myth?

2. What is the author's claim concerning the luxury trap?

3. For what purpose does the author include a table at the start of the text that presents a timeline of human history?

4. What is the focus of the chapter entitled History's Biggest Fraud?

5. How does Harari define the term history?

6. What are two examples of templates for collective action?

7. What call to action does the author make regarding the hierarchy cycle?

8. What examples does the author provide for his claim that societal orders are imagined, rather than objective?

9. How does the author emphasize his view that societal orders are imagined?

10. Harari uses his observation about foraging sapiens versus agricultural sapiens to support what larger claim within the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens employ the use or rejection of fallacy and how does the inclusion or discussion of fallacy help the author to prove particular points made within the text?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens.

Essay Topic 3

What ultimate message is Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens sending about the nature and value of continually examining the history of one’s own civilization?

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