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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. One percent of North American birds have become extinct since what year?
(a) 1700.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1600.
(d) 1500.
2. What is today's human population?
(a) Over five million.
(b) Over fifty billion.
(c) Over five billion.
(d) Over fifteen million.
3. What are these risks?
(a) Nuclear holocaust.
(b) Nuclear holocaust and environmental holocaust.
(c) Nuclear holocaus, environmental holocaust, and planetary holocaust.
(d) Nuclear holocaust, environmental holocaust, personal holocaust, and planetary holocaust.
4. What did European animals include?
(a) Numerous species of large-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.
(b) Numerous species of small-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.
(c) Numerous species of small-bodied domesticated animals.
(d) Numerous species of large-bodied herding animals, which were domesticated.
5. Is genocide a common occurrence in human history?
(a) Only by Western cultures.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) In some cultures.
6. What kept this group of people isolated for so long?
(a) Inaccessible terrain and topography of New Guinea.
(b) Inaccessible terrain and topography of the Canary Islands.
(c) They were the only people in New Guinea.
(d) They were the only people in the Canary Islands.
7. What percentage of extinctions does archaeological evidence suggest is the responsibility of pre-historic humans?
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 80 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 8 percent.
8. What is the Green Bank formula?
(a) A mathematical process that putatively determines the number of intelligent species in the universe.
(b) An organic blood bank.
(c) A political organization.
(d) A bank that is beneficial for the environment.
9. Do the archaeological and historic records suggest that these views are correct?
(a) Entirely.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Not entirely.
(d) Slightly.
10. What enabled this population explosion?
(a) More animals to hunt.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Better technology.
(d) Milder weather.
11. In what did this population explosion and its enabler result?
(a) A mixture of emigrants and native peoples.
(b) The mating of emigrants with native peoples.
(c) Massive emigrations and displacements of native peoples.
(d) Organized, permanent villages of native peoples.
12. What was one of the last major first contacts?
(a) Richard Archbold's first expedition to the Canary Islands.
(b) Richard Archbold's third expedition to the Canary Islands.
(c) Richard Archbold's third expedition to New Guinea.
(d) Richard Archbold's first expedition to New Guinea.
13. How do many imagine that humans lived during certain periods of time?
(a) They were less in tune with nature and behaved with low moral and ethical standards.
(b) They were more in tune with nature and behaved with low moral but ethical standards.
(c) They were more in tune with nature and behaved with high moral and ethical standards.
(d) They were less in tune with nature but behaved with high moral and ethical standards.
14. What did the Europeans do to these people?
(a) They eliminated them entirely over a period of a year through a process called genocide.
(b) They eliminated them entirely over several years through a process called genocide.
(c) They assimilated with them over a period of several years.
(d) They encouraged them to take on European traditions and ideals in a matter of a few years.
15. What is the term for the extinction of these animals due to hunting?
(a) An environmental genocide.
(b) An environmental blizzard.
(c) An environmental blitzkrieg.
(d) An herbocide.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a theoretical pursuit that ponders the likely nature and possible existence of extra-terrestrial life and intelligence?
2. When did humans first cross the Bering Straights into Alaska and then spread south into North America?
3. How were these peoples referred?
4. Are smoking, drinking, and drug use universal human traits?
5. What took place during this same time?
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