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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?
(a) All adopted agriculture as soon as introduced.
(b) They worked more hours in each day than they did farming.
(c) Many did not adopt crops when they were introduced to them.
(d) They spent more time hunting than they did in farming.

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

3. Why was literacy important for the Spanish?
(a) It increased their faith in God.
(b) They were able to read the King's demands.
(c) It gave them more knowledge about the situation.
(d) It allowed them to sail to the Americas.

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

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

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

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

8. Which of the following is not an area very suitable for food production?
(a) The Argentine pampas
(b) The Cape region of South Africa
(c) The Pacific states in North America
(d) Iraq

9. 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) There were no large mammals available.
(c) People weren't intelligent enough to figure it out.
(d) The environment in the area was too poor for farming.

10. Which of the following is not poisonous in the wild?
(a) Eggplants
(b) Watermelons
(c) Squash
(d) Lima beans

11. Which of the following was not a domesticated animal?
(a) Camels
(b) Bears
(c) Cows
(d) Reindeer

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

13. Humans developed on what continent?
(a) Europe
(b) Australia
(c) Africa
(d) Asia

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?

2. Groups tended to turn to food production after what happened?

3. What effect did infectious diseases have on the encounter between the Spanish and Incas?

4. What infectious disease played a role in the European conquest of the Americas?

5. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?

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