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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some people feel that explaining why one group dominates another does what?
(a) Justifies the domination
(b) Creates more questions
(c) Complicates race relations
(d) Makes individuals mad

2. Why did it take people longer to cultivate fruit tress?
(a) They were too easy to cultivate.
(b) They had longer growing periods before harvest.
(c) Their production was low.
(d) They were rare.

3. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?
(a) The development of ocean going crafts
(b) The mass extinction of large mammals
(c) The development of stone tools
(d) The disappearance of human ancestors

4. One argument that people have made is that what stimulated development in Western Europe?
(a) The availability of metals
(b) The amount of sunlight
(c) The cold climate
(d) The absence of germs

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

6. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?
(a) 5000 B.C.
(b) 8000 B.C.
(c) 2500 B.C.
(d) 10,000 B.C.

7. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?
(a) The arrival of humans
(b) Rapid diseases
(c) Killer bees
(d) Climate change

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

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

10. How many of the original fourteen large domesticated mammals became widespread across the globe?
(a) 5
(b) 14
(c) 10
(d) 1

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

12. What animal was domesticated in southwest Asia?
(a) Sheep
(b) None
(c) Pig
(d) Llama

13. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?
(a) Agriculture and metal tools
(b) Agriculture and education
(c) Technology and metal tools.
(d) Technology and education

14. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?
(a) The decline of wild foods
(b) The decreased availability of domesticated plants
(c) Agriculture made them more vulnerable to surrounding groups
(d) The decrease in the population

15. How did Native American hunting and gathering societies become farmers?
(a) By domesticating wild yaks
(b) By acquiring Mexican crops
(c) By conquering the Spanish
(d) By acquiring Canadian crops

Short Answer Questions

1. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?

2. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?

3. Humans developed on what continent?

4. What advantage did horses provide?

5. What crop was domesticated in Ethiopia before spreading around the globe?

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