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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "How to Make an Almond".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What weapon was used by the Incas?
(a) Iron plated ships
(b) Rifles
(c) Wooden clubs
(d) Steel swords

2. Which location did not see a mass extinction of large mammals that was as large as other locations?
(a) North America
(b) New Guinea
(c) Africa
(d) Australia

3. Independent food production began in how many places?
(a) Many places
(b) Only one
(c) Only one place on each continent
(d) A few

4. Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?
(a) Warm climates
(b) Western Europe
(c) North America
(d) The Arctic Circle

5. Why did it take people longer to cultivate fruit tress?
(a) They had longer growing periods before harvest.
(b) Their production was low.
(c) They were rare.
(d) They were too easy to cultivate.

Short Answer Questions

1. The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what?

2. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?

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

4. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

5. What allowed the Maori to have specialists and warriors as part of their society?

(see the answer key)

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