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

2. What is encouraging about the final paragraphs?
(a) They note a few somewhat encouraging examples of environmental preservation and attempts to slow or even reverse ecological destruction.
(b) They note that it will be many years before the earth will be destroyed by mankind.
(c) They note that extinct species will return.
(d) They note that no holocaust will occur.

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

4. What types of behaviors do many animals exhibit?
(a) Behaviors that are detrimental to their enemies.
(b) Behaviors that attract members of the opposite sex.
(c) Behaviors that protect their lives.
(d) Behaviors that seem dangerous.

5. How many species have been scientifically enumerated?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 50 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 2 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do gazelles exhibit this behavior?

2. How has this root language been reconstructed by linguists?

3. What is alarming about what the Europeans did?

4. What languages dominate the world?

5. How do many imagine that humans lived during certain periods of time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is genocide?

2. What does the Green Bank formula do?

3. What enabled population expansion?

4. Describe the migration of the Clovis culture into North and South America?

5. What do first contacts involve?

6. Describe European expansion.

7. What is exobiology?

8. What is Blitzkrieg?

9. What is known about destructive behavior in various species?

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

(see the answer keys)

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