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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. Thirteen of the fourteen large domesticated mammals are native to which area?
(a) The Americas
(b) Eurasia
(c) Africa
(d) Australia

2. How did farmers end up with plants that fulfilled their needs?
(a) Random choices
(b) Trial and error
(c) Historical studies
(d) Scientific analysis

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

4. Which of the following is not poisonous in the wild?
(a) Eggplants
(b) Watermelons
(c) Squash
(d) Lima beans

5. What allowed the Maori to have specialists and warriors as part of their society?
(a) Greater intelligence
(b) Weapons
(c) A capitalist society
(d) Stored crop surpluses

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Maori live?

2. The Moriori lived as which of the following?

3. In what types of societies did writing first emerge?

4. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?

5. Which of these food items was domesticated most recently?

(see the answer key)

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