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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What invention sped up the spread of plants and technologies in Polynesia?
(a) Wagons
(b) "Outrigger" canoes
(c) Wheels
(d) Yachts

2. Diseases that become epidemics infect which group?
(a) Fish
(b) Invertebrates
(c) Plants
(d) Humans

3. Recent research shows that crops from Mexico spread into eastern North America via an indirect route through where?
(a) Canada
(b) Peru
(c) Australia
(d) The southwest

4. Africa has what type of axis?
(a) East-West
(b) Perpendicular
(c) Horizontal
(d) North-South

5. Chiefdoms disappeared in which century?
(a) 14th
(b) 18th
(c) 1st
(d) 20th

Short Answer Questions

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

2. There has been some discussion of how Diamond's work might apply where?

3. Which type of society uses a monopoly of force?

4. Which of the following is not a major infectious disease?

5. What are the smallest societies known as?

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