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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first stage in the transition of diseases to humans?
(a) The major epidemic disease becomes confined to humans.
(b) Pathogens establish themselves in humans and the disease does not die out.
(c) Humans pick up germs and diseases from pets and domestic animals but the germs are still only passed from animal to human, not between humans.
(d) Humans pick up the diseases from other humans.

2. Which region had many of the same advantages as Eurasia?
(a) China
(b) North America
(c) Australia
(d) Chile

3. What was the source of power in New Guinea when food production arose?
(a) Horses
(b) Cows
(c) Humans
(d) Electricity

4. Recent research shows that modern Japanese people resulted from an agricultural expansion from where?
(a) Taiwan
(b) Korea
(c) India
(d) Australia

5. Governments that distribute wealth from commoners to the upper classes are known as what?
(a) Democracies
(b) Kleptocracies
(c) Oligarchies
(d) Monarchies

6. Diamond argues that China is which of the following?
(a) Racially inferior to Europeans
(b) Very homogeneous
(c) Less populous than Australia
(d) More diverse than we tend to think

7. What is necessary for a disease to become an epidemic?
(a) Bad sanitation
(b) A small population
(c) A hunter-gatherer society
(d) A large, sedentary population

8. What is a stone tool or implement that an individual used to pound the fibrous bark of some trees into material that could be used for ropes, nets, and clothing?
(a) A hammer
(b) A wood pounder
(c) A bark beater
(d) A tree downer

9. What was early writing used for primarily?
(a) Accountings of things like sheep and wool
(b) Writing human history
(c) Communicating with other societies
(d) Journaling

10. How are historical sciences different from non-historical sciences?
(a) Historical sciences have fewer
(b) Historical sicences have an easier time with finding cause and effect
(c) Historical sciences more concerned with proximate and ultimate causes
(d) Historical sciences are less complicated with prediction

11. According to Diamond, why are the societies of Asia and the Pacific important?
(a) These societies provide examples of how societies resisted epidemics
(b) These societies provide many examples of how culture inhibited the spread of technology
(c) These societies provide so many examples of how environment influences and shapes history
(d) These societies invented more items than other societies

12. Who introduced pottery, chickens, dogs, and pigs to New Guinea?
(a) Native Americans
(b) Austronesians
(c) Europeans
(d) Indians

13. Australia was once joined together what what other land mass?
(a) Greenland
(b) New Guinea
(c) Cuba
(d) England

14. Diamond suggests that inventions occur because of what?
(a) Perceived need
(b) Superior intelligence
(c) Peoples' curiosity and tinkering
(d) Greater creativity

15. The Americas have what type of axis?
(a) Northwest-Southeast
(b) Northeast-Southwest
(c) North-South
(d) East-West

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Diamond believe that more research needs to be done?

2. Where did writing develop?

3. The basic writing strategy employed by most people today is which of the following?

4. Larger populations created the need for which of the following?

5. Why is food production important for inventions?

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