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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Green Bank estimates indicate?
(a) Extra-terrestrial life and intelligence is minimal.
(b) Extra-terrestrial life and intelligence should be plentiful.
(c) Extra-terrestrial life and intelligence is rediculous.
(d) Extra-terrestrial life and intelligence is non-existent.

2. By what do many suggest that today's societal ills could be eliminated?
(a) Look to the past as a way to learn from previous mistakes.
(b) Enjoy the present, since there is not much hope in the future.
(c) A return to a fondly remembered era of peace and environmental purity.
(d) Working toward a better future and an era of peace and environmental purity.

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

4. In nearly every historic case, what happened to the native people following first contact?
(a) They suffer less.
(b) They became more technologically developed.
(c) They suffered dramatically.
(d) They overpower the other culture.

5. What enabled this population explosion?
(a) Milder weather.
(b) Better technology.
(c) More animals to hunt.
(d) Agriculture.

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

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

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

9. How many species does the author suggest currently exist on earth?
(a) 100 million.
(b) 30 million.
(c) 1 billion.
(d) 20 million.

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

11. What is the result of this evidence?
(a) Several thousand "words" which are considered likely to be very similar to the original language.
(b) Several dozen "words" which are considered likely to be very similar to the original language.
(c) Several hundred "words" which are considered likely to be very similar to the original language.
(d) Several "words" which are considered likely to be very similar to the original language.

12. What is a theoretical pursuit that ponders the likely nature and possible existence of extra-terrestrial life and intelligence?
(a) Terrestriobiology.
(b) ETbiology.
(c) Exobiology.
(d) Extrabiology.

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

14. 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.

15. How many imminent risks to survival does humanity face?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does drug abuse cross all social and cultural boundaries?

2. How is this possible that these people could achieve all of this?

3. Why do gazelles exhibit this behavior?

4. What is encouraging about the final paragraphs?

5. When did humans first cross the Bering Straights into Alaska and then spread south into North America?

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