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

2. Which of the following was not a disease that killed large number of peoples in the Americas?
(a) Smallpox
(b) Ringworm
(c) Influenza
(d) Measles

3. What is one explanation that Diamond gives for why food production didn't begin earlier in some ecologically better areas?
(a) The environment in the area was too poor for farming.
(b) People weren't intelligent enough to figure it out.
(c) There were no large mammals available.
(d) There was some problem with the wild plants available.

4. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?
(a) The mass extinction of large mammals
(b) The development of ocean going crafts
(c) The disappearance of human ancestors
(d) The development of stone tools

5. Almonds were found in which person's tomb?
(a) Tutankhamen
(b) Socrates
(c) Ulysses S. Grant
(d) Jesus

Short Answer Questions

1. Which large mammal was found in Australia about the time humans arrived?

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

3. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?

4. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?

5. Why did the developments occur later in the Americas that in Europe?

(see the answer key)

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