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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 Maori had what type of population?
(a) Sparse
(b) Controlled
(c) Locally dense
(d) Decreasing

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

3. At 11,000 B.C., which continent was most likely to develop quickly?
(a) Africa
(b) North America
(c) Asia
(d) Any of them could have developed most quickly

4. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?
(a) They had already acquired immunity.
(b) They had a natural resistance to the diseases.
(c) They were genetically superior to other groups.
(d) They practiced better sanitation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not a domesticated animal?

2. All people were once what?

3. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?

4. Food production meant what to hunting and gathering societies?

5. The Moriori lived as which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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