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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. How does Diamond explain the mass extinction of large mammals in some areas?
(a) The ice age
(b) A large large comet hit the earth.
(c) Humans killed or indirectly eliminated them.
(d) Germs introduced by humans

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

3. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?
(a) The decreased availability of domesticated plants
(b) Agriculture made them more vulnerable to surrounding groups
(c) The decline of wild foods
(d) The decrease in the population

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following did domestic livestock not provide people?

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

4. Where did the Maori live?

5. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?

(see the answer key)

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