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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did not help the spread of the Austronesian culture?
(a) Better watercraft
(b) The lack of epidemics
(c) Denser populations
(d) Superior tools and weapons

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

3. What is the first stage in the transition of diseases to humans?
(a) Pathogens establish themselves in humans and the disease does not die out.
(b) Humans pick up the diseases from other humans.
(c) Humans pick up germs and diseases from pets and domestic animals but the germs are still only passed from animal to human, not between humans.
(d) The major epidemic disease becomes confined to humans.

4. Governments that distribute wealth from commoners to the upper classes are known as what?
(a) Monarchies
(b) Democracies
(c) Oligarchies
(d) Kleptocracies

5. In what types of societies did writing first emerge?
(a) Places where food production arose
(b) Places were science was a major focus
(c) Capitalist societies
(d) Hunter-gatherers

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where were the earliest known stone tools with ground edges found?

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

4. If knowledge brings power, what increases the power, according to Diamond?

5. Cultural and individual idiosyncrasies throw what into the course of history?

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