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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There has been some discussion of how Diamond's work might apply where?
(a) The retail industry
(b) Preschool education
(c) The corporate world
(d) The economic system

2. Which type of society uses a monopoly of force?
(a) Tribes
(b) Bands
(c) Chiefdoms
(d) States

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

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

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

6. Where does Diamond believe that more research needs to be done?
(a) How racial differences influence development
(b) How cultural differences influence development
(c) How biological differences influence development
(d) How intelligence differences influence development

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

8. Diamond argues that a science of what should be developed?
(a) Emotions
(b) Human history
(c) Intelligence
(d) Conquest

9. Africa has what type of axis?
(a) Horizontal
(b) East-West
(c) North-South
(d) Perpendicular

10. How many "little" languages does China have?
(a) 100
(b) 200
(c) 70
(d) 130

11. What invention sped up the spread of plants and technologies in Polynesia?
(a) Wagons
(b) "Outrigger" canoes
(c) Yachts
(d) Wheels

12. The basic writing strategy employed by most people today is which of the following?
(a) Alphabet
(b) Phonetic signs
(c) Determinatives
(d) Logograms

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

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

15. Why didn't Australians develop food production in ancient times?
(a) Too many plants that could be domesticated
(b) The dry conditions on the continent
(c) Fertile soils
(d) Too much rainfall to support domesticated plants

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invented things like firearms and steel equipment?

2. Australia was once joined together what what other land mass?

3. Diamond looks at what type of conflict in China?

4. The Americas have what type of axis?

5. How many large mammals in Africa were suited to domestication?

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