EAP 2 Timed Reading Quiz Errant Population Fears

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Instructions: Click the grey box following the questions, and choose the best answer to the question. When you are finished, check your number correct on the first try, found in the small box in the top right corner of the page.

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This article describe's Eberstadt's philosophy on overpopulation. Eberstadt would disagree with which sentence? select answer The more people a poor country has, the likelier it is to remain poor. Problems associated with overpopulation are really problems of poverty.


In the last 90 years, poor countries: select answer are becoming poorer and poorer are increasingly wealthy are in the same economic situation


According to Eberstadt, forecasts or predictions about population: select answer are always wrong are often wrong are often right are always right


Eberstadt found many examples of: select answer inaccurate demographic forecasts accurate demographic forecasts


Global family size in the 90's is: select answer smaller than U.N. predictions. about the same as U.N. predictions. larger than U.N. predictions

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