View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?
(a) The societies are all warrior societies.
(b) The groups had no contact with each other.
(c) The islands are all large.
(d) It is very diverse.

2. Strawberries are adapted to have seeds spread by what animals?
(a) Crocodiles
(b) Horses
(c) Birds
(d) Cats

3. The basic writing strategy employed by most people today is which of the following?
(a) Alphabet
(b) Determinatives
(c) Logograms
(d) Phonetic signs

4. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?
(a) Contaminated water
(b) Dirt
(c) Air-born organisms
(d) Domesticated animals

5. What factor meant that population could grow?
(a) A nomadic lifestyle
(b) The availability of more consumable calories
(c) The availability of shelter materials
(d) Fewer natural predators

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands not share?

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

3. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?

4. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?

5. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 188 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample