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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. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?
(a) Francisco Pizarro
(b) Francis Drake
(c) Christopher Columbus
(d) Ferdinand Magellan

2. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?
(a) A scientific guess
(b) True in all areas
(c) A misconception
(d) Based on historical evidence

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

4. The Moriori lived as which of the following?
(a) Slaves
(b) Farmers
(c) Feudal lords
(d) Hunters and gatherers

5. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?
(a) The arrival of humans
(b) Climate change
(c) Killer bees
(d) Rapid diseases

Short Answer Questions

1. What advantage did horses provide?

2. Where did the Maori live?

3. Where did the Incas first encounter the Spanish?

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

5. Australia was joined together with which other area at the time that humans arrived?

(see the answer key)

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