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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The main killers in Africa and the Americas came from where?
(a) Greenland
(b) Australia
(c) Eurasia
(d) Polynesia

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

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

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

5. Where were the earliest known stone tools with ground edges found?
(a) Europe
(b) Africa
(c) Asia
(d) Australia

Short Answer Questions

1. There has been some discussion of how Diamond's work might apply where?

2. Where does Diamond believe that more research needs to be done?

3. Once something is invented, what must happen?

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

5. Who introduced pottery, chickens, dogs, and pigs to New Guinea?

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