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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "To Farm or Not to Farm".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the Maori live?
(a) Tazmania
(b) Hawaii
(c) Easter Island
(d) New Zealand

2. Why did the transition to food production not happen earlier?
(a) Wild animals were widely available
(b) There were no tools for food production
(c) People were involved in creating weapons
(d) Wild plants were not available

3. Which of the following did domestic livestock not provide people?
(a) Power
(b) Meat
(c) Fertilizer for other plants
(d) Access to water

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

5. Which large mammal was found in Australia about the time humans arrived?
(a) Saber tooth tigers
(b) Giant kangaroo
(c) Lions
(d) Wholly mammoth

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapons did the Spanish have in their encounter with the Incas?

2. What weapon was used by the Incas?

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

4. Groups tended to turn to food production after what happened?

5. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?

(see the answer key)

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