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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is used to corroborate the evidence?
(a) One data source.
(b) No data sources.
(c) A few data sources.
(d) Numerous data sources.

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

4. By what are first contacts usually characterized?
(a) Violence and misunderstanding.
(b) Dryness and irritation.
(c) Uncertainty and friendship.
(d) Large meals.

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

6. How do many imagine that humans lived during certain periods of time?
(a) They were more in tune with nature and behaved with low moral but ethical standards.
(b) They were more in tune with nature and behaved with high moral and ethical standards.
(c) They were less in tune with nature but behaved with high moral and ethical standards.
(d) They were less in tune with nature and behaved with low moral and ethical standards.

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

8. What does the author note about studies done on woodpeckers?
(a) Woodpecker traits are only found in other bird species.
(b) Woodpecker traits are found only slightly in other bird species and yet all of the traits necessary to be a woodpecker have come together only once during evolution.
(c) Woodpecker traits are found plentifully in other bird species and yet all of the traits necessary to be a woodpecker have come together only once during evolution.
(d) Woodpecker traits are found plentifully in other bird species and most of the traits necessary to be a woodpecker have come together only once during evolution

9. What is it called when a gazelle sees a lion stalking it and does not run?
(a) Stopping.
(b) Stalking.
(c) Trotting.
(d) Stotting.

10. 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.

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

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

13. Several languages are all derived from a common root language, which is generally referred to as what?
(a) PI.
(b) PE.
(c) PA.
(d) PIE.

14. What kept this group of people isolated for so long?
(a) Inaccessible terrain and topography of New Guinea.
(b) They were the only people in New Guinea.
(c) They were the only people in the Canary Islands.
(d) Inaccessible terrain and topography of the Canary Islands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Do the archaeological and historic records suggest that these views are correct?

2. How could one describe the factors involved in the formula?

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

4. Does the epilogue offer a particularly hopeful look toward the future?

5. What is today's human population?

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