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

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

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

4. The Giant Leap Forward occurred when?
(a) 25,000 years ago
(b) 2,000 years ago
(c) 10,000 years ago
(d) 50,000 years ago

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?

2. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?

3. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?

4. What is true of the first farmers in many areas as compared to the hunters and gatherers?

5. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?

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