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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Recent research shows that modern Japanese people resulted from an agricultural expansion from where?
(a) India
(b) Australia
(c) Taiwan
(d) Korea

2. What is an discussion that has arisen since Diamond's work was first published?
(a) Why the differences are best explained by intelligence
(b) Why Europe didn't expand and conquer
(c) Why China didn't expand and conquer
(d) Why the Americas were conquered

3. What was the biggest difference between the histories of Old World Europe and the New World Americas?
(a) Sparser populations
(b) More intelligent people
(c) Denser populations
(d) The domestication of large mammals

4. Diamond looks at what type of conflict in China?
(a) Intra-continent
(b) Extra-continent
(c) Inter-continent
(d) Neo-continent

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a benefit that institutionalized religion provides?

2. Diamond argues that a science of what should be developed?

3. Once something is invented, what must happen?

4. Who had an advantage over many of the African societies?

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

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