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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is necessary for a disease to become an epidemic?
(a) Bad sanitation
(b) A small population
(c) A large, sedentary population
(d) A hunter-gatherer society

2. Why didn't Australians develop food production in ancient times?
(a) The dry conditions on the continent
(b) Too many plants that could be domesticated
(c) Too much rainfall to support domesticated plants
(d) Fertile soils

3. What is not a cause in the uneven distribution of wealth and power, according to Diamond?
(a) The orientation of a continent on a particular axis
(b) Differences in wild plant distribution
(c) The relative isolation of people
(d) The intelligence of groups

4. Africa has what type of axis?
(a) Horizontal
(b) North-South
(c) East-West
(d) Perpendicular

5. China has how many "big" languages?
(a) 5
(b) 8
(c) 2
(d) 12

Short Answer Questions

1. How many basic writing systems exist?

2. Australia was once joined together what what other land mass?

3. Chiefdoms disappeared in which century?

4. Africa is home to how many major human groups?

5. Diseases that become epidemics infect which group?

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