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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are smoking, drinking, and drug use universal human traits?

2. How could one describe the factors involved in the formula?

3. Why is this gazelle behavior considered dangerous?

4. What countries all have actively spread their languages over the world?

5. What is it called when a gazelle sees a lion stalking it and does not run?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Blitzkrieg?

2. What does the Green Bank formula do?

3. What has been discovered about various human settlers?

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

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

6. What imminent risks to survival does humanity face?

7. What languages dominate the world?

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

9. How does the author conclude the text?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The arrival of Homo sapiens has generally heralded environmental over-exploitation through hunting and harvesting of resources at a rate far beyond which they could possibly be expected to be renewable.

Part 1) What examples does the author give to prove this statement? How did you respond to these examples? Why did you respond this way?

Part 2) What do these examples reveal about the power of humanity? Do other creatures have this type of power? Why or why not?

Part 3) Can humanity reverse this destruction? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Critics and psychologists analyzed the art, unknowingly, of animals.

Part 1) What are the results of the examinations? Do these results surprise you? Why or why not?

Part 2) Can one decide if something is art by simply observing it? Why or why not?

Part 3) How might these critics and psychologists have reacted when they realized they had just examined animal art? Why would they react this way?

Essay Topic 3

Ernst Mayr's biological species concept is used as the de facto biological definition of species.

Part 1) What is Ernst Mayr's biological species concept? Why is it used as the de facto biological definition of species?

Part 2) Is the concept appropriate for defining species? Why or why not?

Part 3) What other information in this text might be viewed as incomplete or incorrect? Why? How does this affect the validity of the book as a whole?

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