View a FREE sample

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 intelligence differences influence development
(b) How biological differences influence development
(c) How racial differences influence development
(d) How cultural differences influence development

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

3. Diamond suggests that inventions occur because of what?
(a) Peoples' curiosity and tinkering
(b) Greater creativity
(c) Perceived need
(d) Superior intelligence

4. Which societies were the most advantaged in Polynesia?
(a) Those with wild plants that could be domesticated
(b) Those with large, native domesticated animals
(c) Those that could hunt large mammals
(d) Those with natural immunity to smallpox

5. What are the smallest societies known as?
(a) States
(b) Bands
(c) Chiefdoms
(d) Tribes

Short Answer Questions

1. How many large mammals in Africa were suited to domestication?

2. The main killers in Africa and the Americas came from where?

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

4. Why did the developments occur later in the Americas that in Europe?

5. What is necessary for a disease to become an epidemic?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 227 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample