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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. How many main motivating rationales does the text propose for the cause of genocide?

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

3. Why do gazelles exhibit this behavior?

4. Why is this gazelle behavior considered dangerous?

5. In what did this population explosion and its enabler result?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe European expansion.

2. What languages dominate the world?

3. What is exobiology?

4. What is genocide?

5. When and where was PIE initially used?

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

7. What does the Green Bank formula do?

8. What is the purpose of the Epilogue?

9. What do first contacts involve?

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

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

A chapter in this book presents the question, why are we attracted to certain types of people?

Part 1) What does the author give as an explanation for this? What research does the author provide to back his claims?

Part 2) Do you believe that the author's research is valid? Why or why not? Are their aspects of attraction that are missing in the author's research? If so, what?

Part 3) How much of one's interest in another is on a subconscious level, how much is based on the decisions one consciously makes? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

One chapter is devoted to the peoples, languages, and cultures of New Guinea.

Part 1) Describe New Guinea and its culture. Why is there an entire chapter devoted to New Guinea?

Part 2) What can scientists learn about humans, in general, by studying the peoples, languages, and cultures of New Guinea?

Part 3) What aspects of New Guinea life and culture is unusual and vastly different from many other cultures around the world? How does this affect the use of the study of New Guinea as a study of humanity as a whole?

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