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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Quiz

Jared Diamond
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1)

About what time did food production begin in the United States? (from Chapter 5 "History's Haves and Have-Nots")

8,000 B.C.
100 A.D.
10,000 B.C.
6,000 B.C.
2)

Where does Diamond believe that more research needs to be done? (from Epilogue "The Future of Human History as a Science")

How biological differences influence development
How cultural differences influence development
How intelligence differences influence development
How racial differences influence development
3)

All people were once what? (from Chapter 6 "To Farm or Not to Farm")

Hunters and gatherers
Wheat producers
Fiefdoms
Immune to diseases
4)

What animal was domesticated in southwest Asia? (from Chapter 5 "History's Haves and Have-Nots")

Pig
None
Llama
Sheep
5)

Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas? (from Chapter 6 "To Farm or Not to Farm")

Areas near the equator
Areas where natural resources are abundant
Areas not fit for food production
Areas with lots of water
6)

What was needed for a society to become involved in food production? (from Chapter 8 "Apples or Indians")

An abundance of wild game
Several species of plants that could be domesticated
A natural disaster
Some type of fruit tree
7)

What is not a cause in the uneven distribution of wealth and power, according to Diamond? (from Epilogue "The Future of Human History as a Science")

Differences in wild plant distribution
The relative isolation of people
The orientation of a continent on a particular axis
The intelligence of groups
8)

There has been some discussion of how Diamond's work might apply where? (from 2003 Afterward "Guns, Germs and Steel Today")

The economic system
Preschool education
The corporate world
The retail industry
9)

Almonds were found in which person's tomb? (from Chapter 7 "How to Make an Almond")

Socrates
Ulysses S. Grant
Jesus
Tutankhamen
10)

Food production meant what to hunting and gathering societies? (from Chapter 6 "To Farm or Not to Farm")

More nomadic lifestyles
Less physical demands
More physical work
Fewer hours of labor each day
11)

What is a benefit that institutionalized religion provides? (from Chapter 14 "From Egalitarian to Kleptocracy")

Organizing societies by biological race
A way to redistribute money from the wealthy to the poor
The ability to rid a society of evil spirits
Frameworks for unrelated individuals to live together without killing each other
12)

The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date? (from Chapter 9 "Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and Anna Karenina")

2500 B.C.
8000 B.C.
10,000 B.C.
5000 B.C.
13)

Hunter-gatherers in southeastern Europe adopted crops and agriculture from where? (from Chapter 6 "To Farm or Not to Farm")

Africa
Southwestern Asia
North America
China
14)

What did not help the spread of the Austronesian culture? (from Chapter 17 "Speedboat to Polynesia")

The lack of epidemics
Better watercraft
Superior tools and weapons
Denser populations
15)

The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what? (from Chapter 5 "History's Haves and Have-Nots")

Obese
Nomadic
Rich
Sedentary
16)

Who invented things like firearms and steel equipment? (from Chapter 13 "Necessity's Mother")

Eurasians
Australians
Americans
Africans
17)

Which societies were the most advantaged in Polynesia? (from Chapter 17 "Speedboat to Polynesia")

Those with wild plants that could be domesticated
Those with large, native domesticated animals
Those that could hunt large mammals
Those with natural immunity to smallpox
18)

What is the first stage in the transition of diseases to humans? (from Chapter 11 "Lethal Gift of Livestock")

The major epidemic disease becomes confined to humans.
Pathogens establish themselves in humans and the disease does not die out.
Humans pick up germs and diseases from pets and domestic animals but the germs are still only passed from animal to human, not between humans.
Humans pick up the diseases from other humans.
19)

How many large mammals in Africa were suited to domestication? (from Chapter 19 "How Africa Became Black")

5
0
2
10
20)

What is an discussion that has arisen since Diamond's work was first published? (from 2003 Afterward "Guns, Germs and Steel Today")

Why Europe didn't expand and conquer
Why China didn't expand and conquer
Why the differences are best explained by intelligence
Why the Americas were conquered
21)

Strawberries are adapted to have seeds spread by what animals? (from Chapter 7 "How to Make an Almond")

Horses
Cats
Crocodiles
Birds
22)

The basic writing strategy employed by most people today is which of the following? (from Chapter 12 "Blueprints and Borrowed Letters")

Alphabet
Phonetic signs
Determinatives
Logograms
23)

Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war? (from Chapter 9 "Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and Anna Karenina")

Reindeer
Cow
Dog
Horse
24)

Where did technology grow the fastest according to Diamond? (from Chapter 13 "Necessity's Mother")

In isolated areas with small populations
In nomadic societies
In large productive regions with large human populations
In areas where food production was just beginning
25)

Independent food production began in how many places? (from Chapter 5 "History's Haves and Have-Nots")

A few
Only one place on each continent
Only one
Many places
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