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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. In what types of societies did writing first emerge?
(a) Places were science was a major focus
(b) Capitalist societies
(c) Places where food production arose
(d) Hunter-gatherers

2. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?
(a) Gas powered machinery
(b) Electricity
(c) Taxes
(d) Education

3. Which of the following did the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands not share?
(a) Sets of domesticated plants
(b) Culture
(c) Government
(d) Language

4. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?
(a) Priest
(b) Gatherer
(c) Hunter
(d) Farmer

5. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?
(a) Why hunter-gatherers adopted plant production
(b) Why domesticated animals became extinct
(c) How hunter-gathereres found food
(d) How ancient farmers domesticated plants

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Maori live?

2. Thirteen of the fourteen large domesticated mammals are native to which area?

3. The basic writing strategy employed by most people today is which of the following?

4. Which of the following is not poisonous in the wild?

5. How did the Moriori avoid conflict?

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