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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 third expedition to the Canary Islands.
(d) Richard Archbold's first expedition to the Canary Islands.

5. Why do gazelles exhibit this behavior?
(a) It helps the gazelle escape the lion.
(b) It allows the gazelle to communicate to the lion that it is aware of the lion and can easily escape.
(c) It tricks the lion into thinking that the gazelle is injured.
(d) It convinces the lion that the gazelle is strong and fast.

6. How is this possible that these people could achieve all of this?
(a) The animals were very weak.
(b) They were very intelligent.
(c) They were powerful.
(d) They could easily reproduce and travel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the conclusion of the woodpecker research?
(a) All woodpeckers are descended from several ancestral species.
(b) Some woodpeckers are descended from a common ancestral species.
(c) All woodpeckers are descended from a common ancestral species.
(d) All woodpeckers are descended from two ancestral species.

14. Do the archaeological and historic records suggest that these views are correct?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Entirely.
(c) Slightly.
(d) Not entirely.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is today's human population?

2. What is the Green Bank formula?

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

4. What is used to corroborate the evidence?

5. What did European animals include?

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