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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. How many "little" languages does China have?
(a) 200
(b) 130
(c) 100
(d) 70

2. The axis of a continent does not affect the spread of what?
(a) Esteem
(b) Crops
(c) Technologies
(d) Animals

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

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

5. What crop was domesticated in Ethiopia before spreading around the globe?
(a) Millet
(b) Manioc
(c) The coffee bean
(d) Teff

Short Answer Questions

1. What axis is most conducive to the spread of food production?

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

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

4. Eurasia's axis runs in what type of line?

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

(see the answer key)

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