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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What animal was domesticated in southwest Asia?
(a) None
(b) Pig
(c) Llama
(d) Sheep

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of the fourteen large mammals that have been used in agriculture or war?

2. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?

3. Independent food production began in how many places?

4. Some people feel that explaining why one group dominates another does what?

5. How did the Moriori avoid conflict?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the societies of Asia and the Pacific important according to Diamond?

2. Why did Australia not develop writing or complex societies as early as other groups, according to Diamond?

3. Infectious diseases that become epidemics tend to share what characteristics?

4. What is one other explanation (different than Diamond's) to explain the uneven distribution of wealth and power.

5. What advantages did the Fertile Crescent have in domesticating plants?

6. Why does Diamond object to many of the traditional views on the uneven distribution of wealth and power?

7. The expansion of humans had what effect on the natural world?

8. What advantages did the Bantu have over other African groups?

9. What misconceptions exist about the transition from hunter-gatherers to food producers?

10. Why does Diamond believe that China was once more diverse than it is now?

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