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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue "The Future of Human History as a Science".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?
(a) Imaginative
(b) Biological
(c) Monetary
(d) Historical

2. What animal was domesticated in southwest Asia?
(a) Sheep
(b) None
(c) Pig
(d) Llama

3. Why didn't Australians develop food production in ancient times?
(a) Too many plants that could be domesticated
(b) The dry conditions on the continent
(c) Fertile soils
(d) Too much rainfall to support domesticated plants

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

5. Who had an advantage over many of the African societies?
(a) Pygmies
(b) Bantu
(c) Congolese
(d) Khoisans

Short Answer Questions

1. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?

2. Cultural and individual idiosyncrasies throw what into the course of history?

3. Because of its axis, food production spread more rapidly in which of the following?

4. What weapon was used by the Incas?

5. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?

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