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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. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?
(a) Humans arriving in North America
(b) The first use of stone tools
(c) The first Home Sapiens
(d) The development of water going crafts

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

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

4. About what time did food production begin in the United States?
(a) 6,000 B.C.
(b) 100 A.D.
(c) 8,000 B.C.
(d) 10,000 B.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the first occupation of Australia important?

2. Wild almonds are what?

3. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?

4. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?

5. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?

(see the answer key)

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