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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the Maori live?
(a) Tazmania
(b) New Zealand
(c) Easter Island
(d) Hawaii

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. All crops began as what?
(a) A foreign plant
(b) A domesticated plant
(c) A wild plant species
(d) A native plant

9. Where did things like agriculture and writing develop?
(a) Warm climates
(b) North America
(c) Western Europe
(d) The Arctic Circle

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

11. Traditional arguments seeking to explain domination have often focused on what?
(a) Height differences
(b) Racial differences
(c) Monetary differences
(d) Brain size differences

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

13. The Maori had what type of population?
(a) Sparse
(b) Controlled
(c) Locally dense
(d) Decreasing

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

15. Some people have argued that those living in warm, humid climates were inhibited in their development by what?
(a) The lower intelligence
(b) The amount of germs
(c) The lack of materials
(d) The heat

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?

3. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?

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

5. What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?

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