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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 &quot;Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and <I>Anna Karenina</I>&quot;.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the original fourteen large domesticated mammals became widespread across the globe?
(a) 5
(b) 1
(c) 14
(d) 10

2. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?
(a) Contaminated water
(b) Domesticated animals
(c) Dirt
(d) Air-born organisms

3. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?
(a) Why domesticated animals became extinct
(b) How hunter-gathereres found food
(c) Why hunter-gatherers adopted plant production
(d) How ancient farmers domesticated plants

4. What was the importance of a written language?
(a) Laws could be known by everyone.
(b) Information could be spread more rapidly.
(c) It reinforced the status of the royalty.
(d) People could communicate with each other.

5. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?
(a) It allowed them to sail to the Americas.
(b) It increased their faith in God.
(c) They were able to read the King's demands.
(d) It gave them more knowledge about the situation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Diamond explain the mass extinction of large mammals in some areas?

2. Humans developed on what continent?

3. Which of the following was one of the earliest crops?

4. Which of the following is not poisonous in the wild?

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

(see the answer key)

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