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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "Speedboat to Polynesia".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?
(a) How war can end if groups decide to stop
(b) How shared culture is important
(c) How environments shape societies
(d) How the loss of large mammals gave societies an advantage

2. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?
(a) Advantages of water
(b) Advantages of steel
(c) Advantages of youth
(d) Advantages of seeds

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

4. Why did the transition to food production not happen earlier?
(a) There were no tools for food production
(b) People were involved in creating weapons
(c) Wild plants were not available
(d) Wild animals were widely available

5. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?
(a) They practiced better sanitation.
(b) They had a natural resistance to the diseases.
(c) They had already acquired immunity.
(d) They were genetically superior to other groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invented things like firearms and steel equipment?

2. How did farmers end up with plants that fulfilled their needs?

3. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?

4. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?

5. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?

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