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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "How to Make an Almond".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wild almonds are what?
(a) Poisonous
(b) Less bitter than domesticated
(c) Sweeter than domesticated
(d) Healthier than domesticated

2. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?
(a) Australian Aborigines
(b) British
(c) Maori
(d) Indonesians

3. The Giant Leap Forward occurred when?
(a) 10,000 years ago
(b) 50,000 years ago
(c) 2,000 years ago
(d) 25,000 years ago

4. Independent food production began in how many places?
(a) A few
(b) Only one
(c) Only one place on each continent
(d) Many places

5. Which of the following did the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands not share?
(a) Sets of domesticated plants
(b) Government
(c) Language
(d) Culture

Short Answer Questions

1. Which area was prominent in the development of weapons?

2. Where did the Maori live?

3. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?

4. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?

5. The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what?

(see the answer key)

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