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

2. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?
(a) It gave them more knowledge about the situation.
(b) It increased their faith in God.
(c) It allowed them to sail to the Americas.
(d) They were able to read the King's demands.

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

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

5. How does Diamond feel about the traditional theories of human development?
(a) He feels that they are wrong.
(b) He feels that they are correct.
(c) He agrees with most of the argument but thinks that germs played a role.
(d) He believes that intelligence differences separated people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Incas first encounter the Spanish?

2. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?

3. What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?

4. Humans developed on what continent?

5. Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?

(see the answer key)

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