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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these areas does not have a climate similar to the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Western Europe
(b) Chile
(c) Polynesia
(d) Southwestern Australia

2. Crops that began food production in an area are known as what?
(a) Gatherers
(b) Transient
(c) Sedentary
(d) Founder crops

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

4. What was the importance of a written language?
(a) Laws could be known by everyone.
(b) Information could be spread more rapidly.
(c) It reinforced the status of the royalty.
(d) People could communicate with each other.

5. All crops began as what?
(a) A foreign plant
(b) A native plant
(c) A domesticated plant
(d) A wild plant species

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

7. Independent food production began in how many places?
(a) Only one place on each continent
(b) Only one
(c) A few
(d) Many places

8. Groups tended to turn to food production after what happened?
(a) They discovered they could save time.
(b) They discovered that the foods were more healthy.
(c) Wild animal populations decreased.
(d) The number of seabirds increased.

9. The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what?
(a) Sedentary
(b) Nomadic
(c) Rich
(d) Obese

10. Almonds were found in which person's tomb?
(a) Jesus
(b) Socrates
(c) Ulysses S. Grant
(d) Tutankhamen

11. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?
(a) Spent more time hunting than growing crops
(b) Collected wild food and raised cultivated ones
(c) Only raised cultivated crops
(d) Raised mainly cultivated crops

12. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?
(a) The islands are all large.
(b) The groups had no contact with each other.
(c) It is very diverse.
(d) The societies are all warrior societies.

13. People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?
(a) Monetary
(b) Biological
(c) Historical
(d) Imaginative

14. Where did the Incas first encounter the Spanish?
(a) Florida
(b) Peru
(c) Canada
(d) Cuba

15. How did farmers end up with plants that fulfilled their needs?
(a) Historical studies
(b) Random choices
(c) Scientific analysis
(d) Trial and error

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?

2. How many of the original fourteen large domesticated mammals became widespread across the globe?

3. What animal was domesticated in southwest Asia?

4. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?

5. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?

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