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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What influenced life in the island societies of Polynesia?
(a) Trade with Europeans
(b) The tropical climate on all islands
(c) The environment
(d) The closeness to North America

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

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

4. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?
(a) All adopted agriculture as soon as introduced.
(b) Many did not adopt crops when they were introduced to them.
(c) They worked more hours in each day than they did farming.
(d) They spent more time hunting than they did in farming.

5. Thirteen of the fourteen large domesticated mammals are native to which area?
(a) Africa
(b) The Americas
(c) Australia
(d) Eurasia

6. What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?
(a) The spread of illnesses
(b) The different rates of human development
(c) The creation of metal tools
(d) The domination of Western Europe

7. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?
(a) The conquest of Europe by Asians
(b) The conquest of Polynesia by Americans
(c) The conquest of the Americas by Europeans
(d) The conquest of Australia by Europeans

8. Which of these areas does not have a climate similar to the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Polynesia
(b) Southwestern Australia
(c) Western Europe
(d) Chile

9. Humans developed on what continent?
(a) Europe
(b) Asia
(c) Australia
(d) Africa

10. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?
(a) They had already acquired immunity.
(b) They were genetically superior to other groups.
(c) They practiced better sanitation.
(d) They had a natural resistance to the diseases.

11. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?
(a) A head start on guns, germs, and steel
(b) Steel production
(c) A head start on hunting and gathering techniques
(d) A resistance to disease

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

13. What advantage did horses provide?
(a) They were used as weapons
(b) More packing room
(c) They pulled the weapons faster than humans
(d) Greater manueverability

14. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Flax
(b) Rice
(c) Emmer wheat
(d) Chickpea

15. About what time did food production begin in the United States?
(a) 6,000 B.C.
(b) 8,000 B.C.
(c) 100 A.D.
(d) 10,000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?

2. Why were early crops chosen by farmers?

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

4. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?

5. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?

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