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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue "The Future of Human History as a Science".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?
(a) A resistance to disease
(b) A head start on hunting and gathering techniques
(c) Steel production
(d) A head start on guns, germs, and steel

3. Who introduced pottery, chickens, dogs, and pigs to New Guinea?
(a) Europeans
(b) Native Americans
(c) Austronesians
(d) Indians

4. Why do pockets of the three language families other than Sino-Tibetan exist in China?
(a) Sino-Tibetan speakers replaced or absorbed the other language areas.
(b) The areas that they are in are frequented by Indonesian traders.
(c) They conquered the Sino-Tibetan speakers from 2000 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
(d) Scholars kept the language families alive in the monasteries.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Maori had what type of population?

3. Which of these food items was domesticated most recently?

4. Diamond argues that a science of what should be developed?

5. Plants like olives, figs and dates were domesticated around what time?

(see the answer key)

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