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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "From Egalitarian to Kleptocracy".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was needed for a society to become involved in food production?
(a) An abundance of wild game
(b) Some type of fruit tree
(c) Several species of plants that could be domesticated
(d) A natural disaster

2. Which of the following is not a major infectious disease?
(a) Smallpox
(b) Malaria
(c) Cancer
(d) Influenza

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

4. Some people have argued that those living in warm, humid climates were inhibited in their development by what?
(a) The lower intelligence
(b) The amount of germs
(c) The lack of materials
(d) The heat

5. Which large mammal was found in Australia about the time humans arrived?
(a) Lions
(b) Saber tooth tigers
(c) Wholly mammoth
(d) Giant kangaroo

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?

2. If knowledge brings power, what increases the power, according to Diamond?

3. Why were early crops chosen by farmers?

4. The axis of a continent does not affect the spread of what?

5. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?

(see the answer key)

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