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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a stone tool or implement that an individual used to pound the fibrous bark of some trees into material that could be used for ropes, nets, and clothing?
(a) A bark beater
(b) A tree downer
(c) A wood pounder
(d) A hammer

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Once something is invented, what must happen?
(a) The inventor must convince society to make use of it.
(b) The inventor must patent the invention.
(c) The inventor must keep people away from the invention.
(d) The inventor must keep people from copying the invention.

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

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

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

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

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

15. China has how many "big" languages?
(a) 8
(b) 5
(c) 12
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. How are historical sciences different from non-historical sciences?

2. Why do pockets of the three language families other than Sino-Tibetan exist in China?

3. Where did technology grow the fastest according to Diamond?

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

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

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