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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was discovered on this expedition?
(a) Hundreds of people known as the Dani.
(b) Thousands of people known as the Canari.
(c) Thousands of people known as the Dani.
(d) Hundreds of people known as the Canari.

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

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

4. Does the epilogue offer a particularly hopeful look toward the future?
(a) No.
(b) Only for powerful nations.
(c) Yes.
(d) In some parts of the world.

5. What is the conclusion of the woodpecker research?
(a) All woodpeckers are descended from two ancestral species.
(b) All woodpeckers are descended from several ancestral species.
(c) All woodpeckers are descended from a common ancestral species.
(d) Some woodpeckers are descended from a common ancestral species.

6. What was one of the last major first contacts?
(a) Richard Archbold's first expedition to New Guinea.
(b) Richard Archbold's third expedition to the Canary Islands.
(c) Richard Archbold's third expedition to New Guinea.
(d) Richard Archbold's first expedition to the Canary Islands.

7. What is it called when a gazelle sees a lion stalking it and does not run?
(a) Stalking.
(b) Trotting.
(c) Stopping.
(d) Stotting.

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

9. What do first contacts involve?
(a) The initial encounter between previously isolated native peoples with previously unknown external peoples who are nearly always more technologically advanced.
(b) The initial encounter between previously isolated native peoples with previously unknown external peoples who are nearly always less technologically advanced.
(c) The first pair of lenses one wears after the use of glasses.
(d) The initial encounter between previously isolated native peoples with previously unknown external peoples who are sometimes more technologically advanced.

10. What did European animals include?
(a) Numerous species of small-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.
(b) Numerous species of large-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.
(c) Numerous species of small-bodied domesticated animals.
(d) Numerous species of large-bodied herding animals, which were domesticated.

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

12. What is the term for the extinction of these animals due to hunting?
(a) An herbocide.
(b) An environmental genocide.
(c) An environmental blizzard.
(d) An environmental blitzkrieg.

13. One percent of North American birds have become extinct since what year?
(a) 1500.
(b) 1700.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1600.

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

15. What is today's human population?
(a) Over fifteen million.
(b) Over five million.
(c) Over five billion.
(d) Over fifty billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In nearly every historic case, what happened to the native people following first contact?

2. Why is this gazelle behavior considered dangerous?

3. What did European settlers find when they first arrived in Tasmania?

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

5. Why do gazelles exhibit this behavior?

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