2. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?
(a) Areas of farmland
(b) The domestication of animals
(c) Different climates
(d) Similar climates

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

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

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

6. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?
(a) The decrease in the population
(b) The decreased availability of domesticated plants
(c) The decline of wild foods
(d) Agriculture made them more vulnerable to surrounding groups

7. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?
(a) Areas where natural resources are abundant
(b) Areas with lots of water
(c) Areas not fit for food production
(d) Areas near the equator

8. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?
(a) Advantages of steel
(b) Advantages of youth
(c) Advantages of water
(d) Advantages of seeds

9. Where did the Incas first encounter the Spanish?
(a) Peru
(b) Florida
(c) Canada
(d) Cuba

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

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

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

13. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?
(a) The groups had no contact with each other.
(b) The societies are all warrior societies.
(c) It is very diverse.
(d) The islands are all large.

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

15. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?
(a) Why domesticated animals became extinct
(b) How ancient farmers domesticated plants
(c) How hunter-gathereres found food
(d) Why hunter-gatherers adopted plant production