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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 "Blueprints and Borrowed Letters".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?
(a) Wild
(b) Calm
(c) Dangerous
(d) Nervous

2. What was early writing used for primarily?
(a) Accountings of things like sheep and wool
(b) Writing human history
(c) Communicating with other societies
(d) Journaling

3. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?
(a) British
(b) Australian Aborigines
(c) Indonesians
(d) Maori

4. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?
(a) 5000 B.C.
(b) 8000 B.C.
(c) 10,000 B.C.
(d) 2500 B.C.

5. When were the Polynesian islands settled?
(a) A. D. 1200 to A.D. 1800
(b) 1200 B.C. to around A.D. 1000
(c) 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.
(d) 10,000 B.C. to 5000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not a domesticated animal?

2. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?

3. Strawberries are adapted to have seeds spread by what animals?

4. If knowledge brings power, what increases the power, according to Diamond?

5. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?

(see the answer key)

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