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

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

3. What effect did infectious diseases have on the encounter between the Spanish and Incas?
(a) The Spanish horses were left weak.
(b) A smallpox vaccine was invented to save the Incas.
(c) Many Incas died as a result of them.
(d) Many Spanish died from the diseases.

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

5. Where did the Maori live?
(a) Hawaii
(b) Easter Island
(c) New Zealand
(d) Tazmania

Short Answer Questions

1. The Moriori lived as which of the following?

2. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?

3. When did the history of humans begin?

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

5. Humans developed on what continent?

(see the answer key)

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