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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is typically necessary for a society to have non-food specialists beyond kings and bureaucrats?
(a) Electricity
(b) Taxes
(c) Education
(d) Gas powered machinery

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

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

4. What infectious disease played a role in the European conquest of the Americas?
(a) Cancer
(b) Smallpox
(c) Ringworm
(d) AIDS

5. About what time did food production begin in the United States?
(a) 8,000 B.C.
(b) 6,000 B.C.
(c) 10,000 B.C.
(d) 100 A.D.

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

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

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

9. Who killed and enslaved the Moriori in the Chatham Islands?
(a) Maori
(b) British
(c) Australian Aborigines
(d) Indonesians

10. When did the history of humans begin?
(a) 2 thousand years ago
(b) 15 million years ago
(c) 1 million years ago
(d) 7 million years ago

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

12. What crop was domesticated in Ethiopia before spreading around the globe?
(a) Millet
(b) The coffee bean
(c) Manioc
(d) Teff

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

14. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?
(a) The development of water going crafts
(b) The first use of stone tools
(c) The first Home Sapiens
(d) Humans arriving in North America

15. What is true of the first farmers in many areas as compared to the hunters and gatherers?
(a) They were better nourished
(b) They worked fewer hours
(c) They had fewer diseases
(d) They died younger

Short Answer Questions

1. What was needed for a society to become involved in food production?

2. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?

3. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?

4. At 11,000 B.C., which continent was most likely to develop quickly?

5. When were the Polynesian islands settled?

(see the answer keys)

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