2. Which societies were the most advantaged in Polynesia?
(a) Those with large, native domesticated animals
(b) Those with wild plants that could be domesticated
(c) Those that could hunt large mammals
(d) Those with natural immunity to smallpox

3. Which of the following was not a disease that killed large number of peoples in the Americas?
(a) Ringworm
(b) Smallpox
(c) Influenza
(d) Measles

4. Why do pockets of the three language families other than Sino-Tibetan exist in China?
(a) They conquered the Sino-Tibetan speakers from 2000 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
(b) Scholars kept the language families alive in the monasteries.
(c) Sino-Tibetan speakers replaced or absorbed the other language areas.
(d) The areas that they are in are frequented by Indonesian traders.

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

6. The Miao-Yao family of language is spoken where?
(a) Only in China's large cities
(b) In Mongolia
(c) In large cities from Thailand to Myanmar
(d) Small enclaves from South China to Thailand

7. How many basic writing systems exist?
(a) 10
(b) 25
(c) 3
(d) 1

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

9. What are the smallest societies known as?
(a) Tribes
(b) Chiefdoms
(c) Bands
(d) States

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

11. Diamond argues that European conquest of Africa had nothing to do with what?
(a) Superior weapons
(b) Biogeography
(c) Accidents of geography
(d) Racial superiority

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

13. How do inventions spread?
(a) Societies see an invention and adopt it.
(b) Inventions don't typically spread.
(c) Through gift-giving practices
(d) Societies are forced to use an invention.

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

15. Diseases that become epidemics infect which group?
(a) Invertebrates
(b) Humans
(c) Fish
(d) Plants