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

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

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

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

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

7. Larger populations created the need for which of the following?
(a) A more complex, centralized government
(b) A writing system beyond the alphabet
(c) More nomadic populations who wouldn't compete for resources
(d) Decentralized food production

8. What foods did people in the Americas depend on?
(a) Protein-poor corn
(b) Protein-poor wheat
(c) Protein-rich rice
(d) Protein-rich cows

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

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

11. What is not a cause in the uneven distribution of wealth and power, according to Diamond?
(a) The intelligence of groups
(b) Differences in wild plant distribution
(c) The orientation of a continent on a particular axis
(d) The relative isolation of people

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

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

14. If knowledge brings power, what increases the power, according to Diamond?
(a) Writing
(b) Weapons
(c) Love
(d) Germs

15. What is a benefit that institutionalized religion provides?
(a) Organizing societies by biological race
(b) Frameworks for unrelated individuals to live together without killing each other
(c) A way to redistribute money from the wealthy to the poor
(d) The ability to rid a society of evil spirits