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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do first contacts involve?
(a) The initial encounter between previously isolated native peoples with previously unknown external peoples who are sometimes more technologically advanced.
(b) The first pair of lenses one wears after the use of glasses.
(c) The initial encounter between previously isolated native peoples with previously unknown external peoples who are nearly always more technologically advanced.
(d) The initial encounter between previously isolated native peoples with previously unknown external peoples who are nearly always less technologically advanced.

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

4. What was discovered on this expedition?
(a) Hundreds of people known as the Canari.
(b) Hundreds of people known as the Dani.
(c) Thousands of people known as the Canari.
(d) Thousands of people known as the Dani.

5. How could one describe the factors involved in the formula?
(a) Exact.
(b) Estimated.
(c) Objective.
(d) Incorrect.

6. How many examples of positive change are noted?
(a) Several.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) One.

7. In what did this population explosion and its enabler result?
(a) The mating of emigrants with native peoples.
(b) Organized, permanent villages of native peoples.
(c) A mixture of emigrants and native peoples.
(d) Massive emigrations and displacements of native peoples.

8. What did the Europeans do to these people?
(a) They eliminated them entirely over several years through a process called genocide.
(b) They assimilated with them over a period of several years.
(c) They eliminated them entirely over a period of a year through a process called genocide.
(d) They encouraged them to take on European traditions and ideals in a matter of a few years.

9. What did some European inhabitants of Australia argue should be carried out in Australia?
(a) Less genocide.
(b) More assimilation.
(c) Less assimilation.
(d) A similar genocide.

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

11. What is alarming about what the Europeans did?
(a) It was considered normal.
(b) It was looked upon as a successful process.
(c) It was looked upon as shocking.
(d) It was something no other Europeans had done.

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

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

14. Are smoking, drinking, and drug use universal human traits?
(a) Only in Third World countries.
(b) No.
(c) Only in the Western world.
(d) Yes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many imminent risks to survival does humanity face?

2. What is a theoretical pursuit that ponders the likely nature and possible existence of extra-terrestrial life and intelligence?

3. What types of behaviors do many animals exhibit?

4. What did European settlers find when they first arrived in Tasmania?

5. The first human settlers of New Zealand hunted local large fauna to extinction within how many years?

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