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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "Speedboat to Polynesia".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Diamond argues that China is which of the following?
(a) Very homogeneous
(b) Less populous than Australia
(c) Racially inferior to Europeans
(d) More diverse than we tend to think

2. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?
(a) Electricity
(b) Gas powered machinery
(c) Education
(d) Taxes

3. The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what?
(a) Rich
(b) Obese
(c) Sedentary
(d) Nomadic

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

5. Who introduced pottery, chickens, dogs, and pigs to New Guinea?
(a) Europeans
(b) Native Americans
(c) Austronesians
(d) Indians

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Australians not develop writing, more complex technologies, or more complex societies?

2. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?

3. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?

4. Food production meant what to hunting and gathering societies?

5. At 11,000 B.C., which continent was most likely to develop quickly?

(see the answer key)

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