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

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

3. What is a prevalent habit among modern peoples of all time?
(a) Look to toward the future and imagine the turmoil that will be taking place.
(b) To look toward the distant past and imagine it as a sort of golden age where contemporaneous problems did not exist.
(c) To look toward the future and imagine it as a sort of golden age.
(d) Look to the past and imagine it as a horrible time of misunderstanding and ignorance.

4. How many main motivating rationales does the text propose for the cause of genocide?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Eight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of behaviors do many animals exhibit?

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

3. What is today's human population?

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

5. By what are first contacts usually characterized?

Short Essay Questions

1. What languages dominate the world?

2. What occurred when European settlers first arrived in Tasmania?

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

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

5. What do first contacts involve?

6. When and where was PIE initially used?

7. What is the purpose of the Epilogue?

8. What imminent risks to survival does humanity face?

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

10. What is exobiology?

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