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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. Almonds were found in which person's tomb?
(a) Ulysses S. Grant
(b) Socrates
(c) Jesus
(d) Tutankhamen

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

3. If knowledge brings power, what increases the power, according to Diamond?
(a) Love
(b) Weapons
(c) Writing
(d) Germs

4. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?
(a) They had already acquired immunity.
(b) They were genetically superior to other groups.
(c) They practiced better sanitation.
(d) They had a natural resistance to the diseases.

5. What influenced life in the island societies of Polynesia?
(a) The tropical climate on all islands
(b) Trade with Europeans
(c) The closeness to North America
(d) The environment

Short Answer Questions

1. How did farmers end up with plants that fulfilled their needs?

2. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?

3. The Moriori lived as which of the following?

4. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?

5. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?

(see the answer key)

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