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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. People in the Fertile Crescent began food production around what time?
(a) 12,500 B.C.
(b) 8,500 B.C.
(c) 100 B.C.
(d) 3,000 B.C.

2. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?
(a) All adopted agriculture as soon as introduced.
(b) Many did not adopt crops when they were introduced to them.
(c) They worked more hours in each day than they did farming.
(d) They spent more time hunting than they did in farming.

3. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?
(a) How war can end if groups decide to stop
(b) How the loss of large mammals gave societies an advantage
(c) How environments shape societies
(d) How shared culture is important

4. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?
(a) Humans arriving in North America
(b) The development of water going crafts
(c) The first use of stone tools
(d) The first Home Sapiens

5. What weapons did the Spanish have in their encounter with the Incas?
(a) Sling shots
(b) Stones
(c) Wooden clubs
(d) Steel swords

Short Answer Questions

1. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?

2. What occurred between the Incas and Spanish forces?

3. How does Diamond explain the mass extinction of large mammals in some areas?

4. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?

5. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?

(see the answer key)

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