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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Is genocide a common occurrence in human history?
(a) Only by Western cultures.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) In some cultures.

3. Within about 1,000 years what had these people done?
(a) Travelled to Central America.
(b) Gone extinct.
(c) Colonized North and South America.
(d) Arrived in North America.

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

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

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

7. What does he conclude by noting?
(a) Neither nuclear holocaust or an environmental holocaust will occur.
(b) The earth will continue on as it has, because humans are not that powerful.
(c) Nuclear holocaust is possible and that environmental holocaust is not only probable, but already underway.
(d) Only an environmental holocaust is likely.

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

9. 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 gluttonchronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.
(d) From glottochronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.

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

11. What are these risks?
(a) Nuclear holocaus, environmental holocaust, and planetary holocaust.
(b) Nuclear holocaust and environmental holocaust.
(c) Nuclear holocaust.
(d) Nuclear holocaust, environmental holocaust, personal holocaust, and planetary holocaust.

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

13. What did European animals include?
(a) Numerous species of large-bodied herding animals, which were domesticated.
(b) Numerous species of small-bodied domesticated animals.
(c) Numerous species of small-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.
(d) Numerous species of large-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.

14. What enabled Europeans to pursue their conquests?
(a) They were more powerful and more intelligent.
(b) They had a better understanding about the natural world around them.
(c) They carried social diseases, had better technology, used advanced writing, and featured large-scale political organizations.
(d) They had more people than the native people.

15. What is the term for the extinction of these animals due to hunting?
(a) An environmental blizzard.
(b) An environmental genocide.
(c) An herbocide.
(d) An environmental blitzkrieg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do first contacts involve?

2. In nearly every historic case, what happened to the native people following first contact?

3. What was discovered on this expedition?

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

5. One percent of North American birds have become extinct since what year?

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