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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Larger populations created the need for which of the following?
(a) More nomadic populations who wouldn't compete for resources
(b) A more complex, centralized government
(c) Decentralized food production
(d) A writing system beyond the alphabet

3. Diamond argues that China is which of the following?
(a) Racially inferior to Europeans
(b) Very homogeneous
(c) Less populous than Australia
(d) More diverse than we tend to think

4. What is the first stage in the transition of diseases to humans?
(a) The major epidemic disease becomes confined to humans.
(b) 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.
(c) Pathogens establish themselves in humans and the disease does not die out.
(d) Humans pick up the diseases from other humans.

5. Australia was once joined together what what other land mass?
(a) New Guinea
(b) England
(c) Greenland
(d) Cuba

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do pockets of the three language families other than Sino-Tibetan exist in China?

2. Chiefdoms disappeared in which century?

3. What are the smallest societies known as?

4. Recent research shows that modern Japanese people resulted from an agricultural expansion from where?

5. What was the source of power in New Guinea when food production arose?

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