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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. Why were domesticated plants able to spread from the Fertile Crescent to nearby areas more easily?
(a) They were already adapted to the people's tastes
(b) Differing amounts of rainfall
(c) Reindeer spread the seeds
(d) They were already adapted to the climate

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

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

4. What axis is most conducive to the spread of food production?
(a) Northeast-Southwest
(b) East-West
(c) North-South
(d) North-West

5. Why do pockets of the three language families other than Sino-Tibetan exist in China?
(a) Sino-Tibetan speakers replaced or absorbed the other language areas.
(b) They conquered the Sino-Tibetan speakers from 2000 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
(c) The areas that they are in are frequented by Indonesian traders.
(d) Scholars kept the language families alive in the monasteries.

Short Answer Questions

1. The axis of a continent does not affect the spread of what?

2. The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what?

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

4. When did independent food production begin?

5. Diamond looks at what type of conflict in China?

(see the answer key)

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