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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What gave Europeans an advantage in information about the groups they encountered?
(a) Spies in other countries
(b) Speaking many different languages
(c) Writing
(d) Domesticated mammals

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

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

5. Once something is invented, what must happen?
(a) The inventor must convince society to make use of it.
(b) The inventor must keep people from copying the invention.
(c) The inventor must patent the invention.
(d) The inventor must keep people away from the invention.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Larger populations created the need for which of the following?

3. Why did Australians not develop writing, more complex technologies, or more complex societies?

4. Which region had many of the same advantages as Eurasia?

5. China has how many "big" languages?

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