3. 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 hammer
(c) A tree downer
(d) A wood pounder

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

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

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

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

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

9. Recent research shows that crops from Mexico spread into eastern North America via an indirect route through where?
(a) Australia
(b) Peru
(c) The southwest
(d) Canada

10. Diamond argues that European conquest of Africa had nothing to do with what?
(a) Biogeography
(b) Racial superiority
(c) Accidents of geography
(d) Superior weapons

11. How do inventions spread?
(a) Through gift-giving practices
(b) Societies are forced to use an invention.
(c) Societies see an invention and adopt it.
(d) Inventions don't typically spread.

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

13. What is an discussion that has arisen since Diamond's work was first published?
(a) Why the differences are best explained by intelligence
(b) Why Europe didn't expand and conquer
(c) Why China didn't expand and conquer
(d) Why the Americas were conquered

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

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