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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 "Hemispheres Colliding".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?
(a) How environments shape societies
(b) How war can end if groups decide to stop
(c) How the loss of large mammals gave societies an advantage
(d) How shared culture is important

3. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Flax
(b) Chickpea
(c) Rice
(d) Emmer wheat

4. Where were the earliest known stone tools with ground edges found?
(a) Africa
(b) Europe
(c) Australia
(d) Asia

5. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?
(a) Indonesians
(b) Australian Aborigines
(c) British
(d) Maori

Short Answer Questions

1. The Moriori lived as which of the following?

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

3. Strawberries are adapted to have seeds spread by what animals?

4. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

5. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?

(see the answer key)

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