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

2. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?
(a) Farmer
(b) Priest
(c) Gatherer
(d) Hunter

3. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?
(a) The arrival of humans
(b) Climate change
(c) Rapid diseases
(d) Killer bees

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the Moriori avoid conflict?

3. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?

4. The arrival of founder crops enabled local populations to become what?

5. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did food production not occur earlier in history?

2. How did the Maori and the Moriori differ?

3. How did leaders of kleptocracies gain support for their systems?

4. What made the spread of Austronesian culture possible?

5. Why was writing an advantage to the groups that had it?

6. What are some areas where food production didn't develop early on but the environment is ecologically suited to food production?

7. What are the four stages in how diseases are transferred from animals to humans?

8. What are some reasons why hunter-gatherers would adopt food production?

9. How does food production relate to a greater population?

10. Why did plant domestication and food production did not develop earlier in some of the ecologically better areas?

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