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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 "History's Haves and Have-Nots".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?
(a) Electricity
(b) Taxes
(c) Education
(d) Gas powered machinery

2. When were the Polynesian islands settled?
(a) 10,000 B.C. to 5000 B.C.
(b) 1200 B.C. to around A.D. 1000
(c) 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.
(d) A. D. 1200 to A.D. 1800

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

4. The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what?
(a) Rich
(b) Sedentary
(c) Nomadic
(d) Obese

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?

2. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?

3. About what time did food production begin in the United States?

4. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

5. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?

(see the answer key)

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