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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did independent food production begin?
(a) 5,000 to 4,000 B.C.
(b) 8500 to 8000 B.C.
(c) 2,000 to 100 B.C.
(d) 10,000 to 9000 B.C.

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

3. What axis is most conducive to the spread of food production?
(a) North-South
(b) Northeast-Southwest
(c) North-West
(d) East-West

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

5. The Moriori lived as which of the following?
(a) Hunters and gatherers
(b) Farmers
(c) Slaves
(d) Feudal lords

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

7. What advantage did horses provide?
(a) They were used as weapons
(b) They pulled the weapons faster than humans
(c) Greater manueverability
(d) More packing room

8. Why were early crops chosen by farmers?
(a) They were already edible
(b) They gave low yields in the wild
(c) They grew slowly
(d) They were not able to be stored

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

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

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

12. How did the Moriori avoid conflict?
(a) By giving in when challenged
(b) By moving to an area that no one wanted
(c) By choosing not to develop weapons
(d) By renouncing war

13. Eurasia's axis runs in what type of line?
(a) Parallel
(b) Perpendicular
(c) Horizontal
(d) Vertical

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

15. Independent food production appears to have begun where?
(a) The eastern edge of Canada
(b) Siberia
(c) The Fertile Crescent
(d) South America

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?

2. Which location did not see a mass extinction of large mammals that was as large as other locations?

3. How did Native American hunting and gathering societies become farmers?

4. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?

5. Why was the first occupation of Australia important?

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