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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) 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.
(c) Humans pick up the diseases from other humans.
(d) Pathogens establish themselves in humans and the disease does not die out.

2. Where did writing develop?
(a) Australia
(b) Europe
(c) China
(d) Mesopotamia

3. In what types of societies did writing first emerge?
(a) Places where food production arose
(b) Hunter-gatherers
(c) Capitalist societies
(d) Places were science was a major focus

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

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

6. What was the biggest difference between the histories of Old World Europe and the New World Americas?
(a) The domestication of large mammals
(b) Denser populations
(c) Sparser populations
(d) More intelligent people

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

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

9. Chiefdoms disappeared in which century?
(a) 20th
(b) 14th
(c) 18th
(d) 1st

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

11. 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) The areas that they are in are frequented by Indonesian traders.
(c) Sino-Tibetan speakers replaced or absorbed the other language areas.
(d) Scholars kept the language families alive in the monasteries.

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

13. What is human's slowest defense against germs?
(a) Antibiotics
(b) Vaccines
(c) Natural selection
(d) Sanitation

14. What did not help the spread of the Austronesian culture?
(a) Denser populations
(b) Superior tools and weapons
(c) Better watercraft
(d) The lack of epidemics

15. Africa is home to how many major human groups?
(a) 2
(b) 10
(c) 5
(d) 25

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a benefit that institutionalized religion provides?

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

3. Diamond argues that China is which of the following?

4. Diseases that become epidemics infect which group?

5. Recent research shows that crops from Mexico spread into eastern North America via an indirect route through where?

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