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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Groups tended to turn to food production after what happened?
(a) Wild animal populations decreased.
(b) They discovered that the foods were more healthy.
(c) They discovered they could save time.
(d) The number of seabirds increased.

3. What was needed for a society to become involved in food production?
(a) Several species of plants that could be domesticated
(b) A natural disaster
(c) Some type of fruit tree
(d) An abundance of wild game

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

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

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

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

8. Wild almonds are what?
(a) Less bitter than domesticated
(b) Healthier than domesticated
(c) Poisonous
(d) Sweeter than domesticated

9. What animal helped groups overthrow and conquer other groups?
(a) Yaks
(b) Dogs
(c) Lions
(d) Horses

10. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?
(a) A capitalist society
(b) The ability to conquer other groups
(c) Large populations
(d) The ability to store food

11. Which of the following was one of the earliest crops?
(a) Fruit trees
(b) Olives
(c) Wheat
(d) Dates

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

13. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?
(a) Cow
(b) Horse
(c) Dog
(d) Reindeer

14. What weapons did the Spanish have in their encounter with the Incas?
(a) Steel swords
(b) Wooden clubs
(c) Sling shots
(d) Stones

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?

2. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?

3. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?

4. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?

5. Where did the Maori live?

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