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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

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

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

5. Because of its axis, food production spread more rapidly in which of the following?
(a) Southwest Asia
(b) Greenland
(c) The Americas
(d) Africa

6. Almonds were found in which person's tomb?
(a) Jesus
(b) Ulysses S. Grant
(c) Socrates
(d) Tutankhamen

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

8. Which location did not see a mass extinction of large mammals that was as large as other locations?
(a) New Guinea
(b) Australia
(c) Africa
(d) North America

9. Some people feel that explaining why one group dominates another does what?
(a) Complicates race relations
(b) Creates more questions
(c) Makes individuals mad
(d) Justifies the domination

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

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

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

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

14. Crops that began food production in an area are known as what?
(a) Gatherers
(b) Transient
(c) Founder crops
(d) Sedentary

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did it take people longer to cultivate fruit tress?

2. Sedentary lifestyles led to what type of birth intervals?

3. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

4. What factor meant that population could grow?

5. Most domesticated mammals have been what?

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