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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. Independent food production appears to have begun where?
(a) Siberia
(b) South America
(c) The eastern edge of Canada
(d) The Fertile Crescent

2. Diamond looks at what type of conflict in China?
(a) Inter-continent
(b) Neo-continent
(c) Extra-continent
(d) Intra-continent

3. About what time did food production begin in the United States?
(a) 6,000 B.C.
(b) 8,000 B.C.
(c) 100 A.D.
(d) 10,000 B.C.

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

5. When did independent food production begin?
(a) 5,000 to 4,000 B.C.
(b) 10,000 to 9000 B.C.
(c) 2,000 to 100 B.C.
(d) 8500 to 8000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. China has how many "big" languages?

3. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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