2. The language that did most of the conquering or "engulfing" in Africa was which of the following?
(a) Nilo-Saharan
(b) Niger-Congo
(c) Khoisan
(d) Bantu

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

4. Who had an advantage over many of the African societies?
(a) Khoisans
(b) Pygmies
(c) Congolese
(d) Bantu

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

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

7. Where were the earliest known stone tools with ground edges found?
(a) Africa
(b) Europe
(c) Australia
(d) Asia

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

9. Archeological evidence links what early culture with later Pacific island cultures?
(a) Japan
(b) Indian
(c) Cherokee
(d) Taiwan

10. What does Diamond attribute the differences in development to?
(a) Genetics
(b) The environment
(c) Intelligence
(d) Culture

11. Which of the following is not a major infectious disease?
(a) Smallpox
(b) Cancer
(c) Influenza
(d) Malaria

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

13. Who invented things like firearms and steel equipment?
(a) Australians
(b) Americans
(c) Eurasians
(d) Africans

14. What is the first stage in the transition of diseases to humans?
(a) 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.
(b) Pathogens establish themselves in humans and the disease does not die out.
(c) The major epidemic disease becomes confined to humans.
(d) Humans pick up the diseases from other humans.

15. Diamond looks at what type of conflict in China?
(a) Inter-continent
(b) Neo-continent
(c) Extra-continent
(d) Intra-continent