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This test consists of 5 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 cultural differences influence development
(b) How biological differences influence development
(c) How intelligence differences influence development
(d) How racial differences influence development

2. Cultural and individual idiosyncrasies throw what into the course of history?
(a) The ability to predict outcomes
(b) Wild cards
(c) The knowledge that these aspects don't matter in history
(d) Certainty

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

4. The Miao-Yao family of language is spoken where?
(a) Only in China's large cities
(b) Small enclaves from South China to Thailand
(c) In Mongolia
(d) In large cities from Thailand to Myanmar

5. Which of the following was not a disease that killed large number of peoples in the Americas?
(a) Influenza
(b) Ringworm
(c) Smallpox
(d) Measles

Short Answer Questions

1. What gave Europeans an advantage in information about the groups they encountered?

2. What was early writing used for primarily?

3. In what types of societies did writing first emerge?

4. Who had an advantage over many of the African societies?

5. China has how many "big" languages?

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