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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16 "How China Became Chinese".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?
(a) The domestication of animals
(b) Similar climates
(c) Areas of farmland
(d) Different climates

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

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

5. Eurasia's axis runs in what type of line?
(a) Horizontal
(b) Perpendicular
(c) Vertical
(d) Parallel

Short Answer Questions

1. How do archeologists date food production?

2. How did Native American hunting and gathering societies become farmers?

3. The Miao-Yao family of language is spoken where?

4. About what time did food production begin in the United States?

5. Why do pockets of the three language families other than Sino-Tibetan exist in China?

(see the answer key)

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