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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sedentary lifestyles led to what type of birth intervals?
(a) Larger
(b) Shorter
(c) Longer
(d) More difficult

2. Strawberries are adapted to have seeds spread by what animals?
(a) Horses
(b) Birds
(c) Crocodiles
(d) Cats

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

4. What weapon was used by the Incas?
(a) Rifles
(b) Iron plated ships
(c) Steel swords
(d) Wooden clubs

5. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?
(a) Eurocentric
(b) Asiatic
(c) Cultural
(d) Historical

6. What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?
(a) The different rates of human development
(b) The creation of metal tools
(c) The spread of illnesses
(d) The domination of Western Europe

7. Which of the following was one of the earliest crops?
(a) Fruit trees
(b) Olives
(c) Wheat
(d) Dates

8. Food production meant what to hunting and gathering societies?
(a) Fewer hours of labor each day
(b) Less physical demands
(c) More nomadic lifestyles
(d) More physical work

9. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?
(a) Goals
(b) Ancestors
(c) A government
(d) Weapons

10. Which area was prominent in the development of weapons?
(a) Africa
(b) Western Europe
(c) North America
(d) South America

11. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?
(a) Calm
(b) Nervous
(c) Dangerous
(d) Wild

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

13. At 11,000 B.C., which continent was most likely to develop quickly?
(a) Asia
(b) Any of them could have developed most quickly
(c) North America
(d) Africa

14. Which of these food items was domesticated most recently?
(a) Peas
(b) Pecans
(c) Strawberries
(d) Olives

15. What is one explanation that Diamond gives for why food production didn't begin earlier in some ecologically better areas?
(a) There were no large mammals available.
(b) People weren't intelligent enough to figure it out.
(c) There was some problem with the wild plants available.
(d) The environment in the area was too poor for farming.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?

2. What animal was domesticated in southwest Asia?

3. Some people feel that explaining why one group dominates another does what?

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

5. Some people have argued that those living in warm, humid climates were inhibited in their development by what?

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