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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 &quot;Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and <I>Anna Karenina</I>&quot;.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Emmer wheat
(b) Rice
(c) Chickpea
(d) Flax

2. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?
(a) Australian Aborigines
(b) British
(c) Indonesians
(d) Maori

3. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?
(a) Cultural
(b) Historical
(c) Eurocentric
(d) Asiatic

4. 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.

5. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?
(a) Agriculture made them more vulnerable to surrounding groups
(b) The decreased availability of domesticated plants
(c) The decrease in the population
(d) The decline of wild foods

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?

3. How did Native American hunting and gathering societies become farmers?

4. What is not an advantage that the Fertile Crescent had in food production?

5. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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