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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. The Miao-Yao family of language is spoken where?
(a) In Mongolia
(b) Small enclaves from South China to Thailand
(c) Only in China's large cities
(d) In large cities from Thailand to Myanmar

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

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

4. China has how many "big" languages?
(a) 8
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 12

5. Crops that began food production in an area are known as what?
(a) Transient
(b) Gatherers
(c) Founder crops
(d) Sedentary

Short Answer Questions

1. When did independent food production begin?

2. How do archeologists date food production?

3. Diamond argues that China is which of the following?

4. Because of its axis, food production spread more rapidly in which of the following?

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

(see the answer key)

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