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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most domesticated mammals have been what?
(a) Tactivores
(b) Herbivores
(c) Carnivores
(d) Omnivores

2. All people were once what?
(a) Immune to diseases
(b) Fiefdoms
(c) Wheat producers
(d) Hunters and gatherers

3. Which of the following did the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands not share?
(a) Sets of domesticated plants
(b) Language
(c) Culture
(d) Government

4. What infectious disease played a role in the European conquest of the Americas?
(a) Smallpox
(b) Cancer
(c) Ringworm
(d) AIDS

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

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

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

8. Which area was prominent in the development of weapons?
(a) Africa
(b) North America
(c) South America
(d) Western Europe

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

10. The Moriori lived as which of the following?
(a) Farmers
(b) Feudal lords
(c) Hunters and gatherers
(d) Slaves

11. The Giant Leap Forward occurred when?
(a) 50,000 years ago
(b) 2,000 years ago
(c) 25,000 years ago
(d) 10,000 years ago

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

13. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?
(a) Technology and education
(b) Agriculture and metal tools
(c) Agriculture and education
(d) Technology and metal tools.

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

15. How does Diamond explain the mass extinction of large mammals in some areas?
(a) Humans killed or indirectly eliminated them.
(b) Germs introduced by humans
(c) The ice age
(d) A large large comet hit the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?

2. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?

3. Plants like olives, figs and dates were domesticated around what time?

4. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?

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

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