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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are "selfer" plants?
(a) Plants that take more soil nutrients than other plants
(b) Plants that pollinate themselves
(c) Plants that contain a high level of Vitamin B
(d) Plants that can be started by people

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

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

8. Humans developed on what continent?
(a) Asia
(b) Africa
(c) Australia
(d) Europe

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

10. Australia was joined together with which other area at the time that humans arrived?
(a) Japan
(b) New Guinea
(c) South America
(d) Africa

11. Why was the first occupation of Australia important?
(a) It killed off the most large mammals.
(b) It was the first occupation on any continent.
(c) It was the biggest occupation on any continent.
(d) It required watercraft.

12. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?
(a) The conquest of Polynesia by Americans
(b) The conquest of the Americas by Europeans
(c) The conquest of Australia by Europeans
(d) The conquest of Europe by Asians

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

14. Which Spanish conquistador first encountered the Incas?
(a) Francis Drake
(b) Christopher Columbus
(c) Ferdinand Magellan
(d) Francisco Pizarro

15. What allowed the Maori to have specialists and warriors as part of their society?
(a) Stored crop surpluses
(b) A capitalist society
(c) Weapons
(d) Greater intelligence

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not a domesticated animal?

2. Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?

3. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?

4. What is not an advantage that the Fertile Crescent had in food production?

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

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