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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Americas have what type of axis?
(a) Northwest-Southeast
(b) Northeast-Southwest
(c) North-South
(d) East-West

2. What is necessary for a disease to become an epidemic?
(a) Bad sanitation
(b) A small population
(c) A hunter-gatherer society
(d) A large, sedentary population

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

4. Archeological evidence links what early culture with later Pacific island cultures?
(a) Taiwan
(b) Indian
(c) Cherokee
(d) Japan

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do inventions spread?

2. How many "little" languages does China have?

3. When was Diamond's work first published?

4. What is not a cause in the uneven distribution of wealth and power, according to Diamond?

5. What is a benefit that institutionalized religion provides?

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