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

2. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?
(a) A capitalist society
(b) Large populations
(c) The ability to store food
(d) The ability to conquer other groups

3. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?
(a) Advantages of water
(b) Advantages of seeds
(c) Advantages of steel
(d) Advantages of youth

4. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?
(a) It gave them more knowledge about the situation.
(b) They were able to read the King's demands.
(c) It allowed them to sail to the Americas.
(d) It increased their faith in God.

5. What was the importance of a written language?
(a) Laws could be known by everyone.
(b) Information could be spread more rapidly.
(c) It reinforced the status of the royalty.
(d) People could communicate with each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?

2. When did the history of humans begin?

3. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?

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

5. People in the Fertile Crescent began food production around what time?

(see the answer key)

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