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

2. What did some European inhabitants of Australia argue should be carried out in Australia?
(a) More assimilation.
(b) Less genocide.
(c) A similar genocide.
(d) Less assimilation.

3. What did the Europeans do to these people?
(a) They assimilated with them over a period of several years.
(b) They encouraged them to take on European traditions and ideals in a matter of a few 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.

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

5. What is the Green Bank formula?
(a) A mathematical process that putatively determines the number of intelligent species in the universe.
(b) A bank that is beneficial for the environment.
(c) An organic blood bank.
(d) A political organization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does he do in the Epilogue?

2. What was discovered on this expedition?

3. What is encouraging about the final paragraphs?

4. What languages dominate the world?

5. What is the term for the extinction of these animals due to hunting?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the purpose of the Epilogue?

3. What does the Green Bank formula do?

4. What imminent risks to survival does humanity face?

5. What enabled population expansion?

6. What is Blitzkrieg?

7. What languages dominate the world?

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

9. What is exobiology?

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

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