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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Collision at Cajamarca".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which large mammal was found in Australia about the time humans arrived?
(a) Saber tooth tigers
(b) Wholly mammoth
(c) Giant kangaroo
(d) Lions

2. People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?
(a) Historical
(b) Monetary
(c) Biological
(d) Imaginative

3. Which of the following did the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands not share?
(a) Language
(b) Culture
(c) Government
(d) Sets of domesticated plants

4. What influenced life in the island societies of Polynesia?
(a) The environment
(b) The closeness to North America
(c) The tropical climate on all islands
(d) Trade with Europeans

5. What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?
(a) The creation of metal tools
(b) The spread of illnesses
(c) The different rates of human development
(d) The domination of Western Europe

Short Answer Questions

1. The Moriori lived as which of the following?

2. Where did the Maori live?

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

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

5. What weapons did the Spanish have in their encounter with the Incas?

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