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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the Europeans do to these people?
(a) They encouraged them to take on European traditions and ideals in a matter of a few years.
(b) They assimilated with them over a period of several years.
(c) They eliminated them entirely over several years through a process called genocide.
(d) They eliminated them entirely over a period of a year through a process called genocide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is this gazelle behavior considered dangerous?

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

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

4. What is the conclusion of the woodpecker research?

5. What languages dominate the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author suggest about the species on Earth and extinction rates?

2. What is a prevalent habit among modern peoples of all time?

3. What principle is used to explain why animals can be self-destructive?

4. What was one of the last major first contacts?

5. What has been discovered about various human settlers?

6. What is the purpose of the Epilogue?

7. What enabled population expansion?

8. What do first contacts involve?

9. How does the author conclude the text?

10. What does the Green Bank formula do?

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