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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is encouraging about the final paragraphs?
(a) They note that it will be many years before the earth will be destroyed by mankind.
(b) They note that extinct species will return.
(c) They note that no holocaust will occur.
(d) They note a few somewhat encouraging examples of environmental preservation and attempts to slow or even reverse ecological destruction.

2. What else does he do in the Epilogue?
(a) He reminds the reader of his message.
(b) He reiterates the major events of human evolution and cultural development.
(c) He discusses changes in his research since the book was first published.
(d) He argues against several points made in the book.

3. What was a nickname for these type of people in the civilizations?
(a) Crazy natives.
(b) Noble savages.
(c) Beautiful peasants.
(d) Ignorant beasts.

4. Why is this gazelle behavior considered dangerous?
(a) Sometimes the lion pursues the stalking gazelle.
(b) Sometimes the lion pursues the stopping gazelle.
(c) Sometimes the lion pursues the trotting gazelle.
(d) Sometimes the lion pursues the stotting gazelle.

5. Does drug abuse cross all social and cultural boundaries?
(a) Only in Third World countries.
(b) Only Western cultures.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

6. What languages dominate the world?
(a) European derived languages.
(b) Indonesian derived languages.
(c) Indo-European derived languages.
(d) Asian derived languages.

7. What percentage of extinctions does archaeological evidence suggest is the responsibility of pre-historic humans?
(a) 8 percent.
(b) 80 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

8. When did humans first cross the Bering Straights into Alaska and then spread south into North America?
(a) About 11,000 years ago.
(b) About 5,000 years ago.
(c) About 2,000 years ago.
(d) About 100,000 years ago.

9. What is the Green Bank formula?
(a) An organic blood bank.
(b) A bank that is beneficial for the environment.
(c) A political organization.
(d) A mathematical process that putatively determines the number of intelligent species in the universe.

10. One percent of North American birds have become extinct since what year?
(a) 1700.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1500.
(d) 1600.

11. What was one of the last major first contacts?
(a) Richard Archbold's first expedition to New Guinea.
(b) Richard Archbold's first expedition to the Canary Islands.
(c) Richard Archbold's third expedition to New Guinea.
(d) Richard Archbold's third expedition to the Canary Islands.

12. What is today's human population?
(a) Over fifteen million.
(b) Over five billion.
(c) Over five million.
(d) Over fifty billion.

13. What does the author do in the Epilogue?
(a) He recapitulates the major themes of the text.
(b) He starts a new theme.
(c) He avoids discussing the future of mankind.
(d) He gives his opinion about the history of man.

14. How has this root language been reconstructed by linguists?
(a) From garbochronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.
(b) From grabochronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.
(c) From glottochronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.
(d) From gluttonchronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.

15. What countries all have actively spread their languages over the world?
(a) China, Japan, India, Cambodia, and Thailand.
(b) England, Spain, Portugal, France, and Russia.
(c) Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the Netherlands.
(d) Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, and Jordan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kept this group of people isolated for so long?

2. How many species have been scientifically enumerated?

3. Are smoking, drinking, and drug use universal human traits?

4. What does he conclude by noting?

5. By what do many suggest that today's societal ills could be eliminated?

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