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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) 100
(b) 200
(c) 130
(d) 70

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?

2. Independent food production began in how many places?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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