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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 animal helped groups overthrow and conquer other groups?
(a) Yaks
(b) Lions
(c) Dogs
(d) Horses

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

3. People in the Fertile Crescent began food production around what time?
(a) 3,000 B.C.
(b) 100 B.C.
(c) 8,500 B.C.
(d) 12,500 B.C.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When were the Polynesian islands settled?

3. Strawberries are adapted to have seeds spread by what animals?

4. What advantage did horses provide?

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

(see the answer key)

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