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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. What is a stone tool or implement that an individual used to pound the fibrous bark of some trees into material that could be used for ropes, nets, and clothing?
(a) A hammer
(b) A wood pounder
(c) A tree downer
(d) A bark beater

2. Cultural and individual idiosyncrasies throw what into the course of history?
(a) The ability to predict outcomes
(b) Wild cards
(c) The knowledge that these aspects don't matter in history
(d) Certainty

3. What factor meant that population could grow?
(a) Fewer natural predators
(b) A nomadic lifestyle
(c) The availability of shelter materials
(d) The availability of more consumable calories

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

5. Diamond argues that European conquest of Africa had nothing to do with what?
(a) Biogeography
(b) Racial superiority
(c) Accidents of geography
(d) Superior weapons

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what types of societies did writing first emerge?

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

5. When did the history of humans begin?

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