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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 are "selfer" plants?
(a) Plants that pollinate themselves
(b) Plants that can be started by people
(c) Plants that contain a high level of Vitamin B
(d) Plants that take more soil nutrients than other plants

2. Plant and animal domestication led to which of the following?
(a) Sparser societies
(b) Less warfare
(c) Increased hunger
(d) Denser human populations

3. What is true of the first farmers in many areas as compared to the hunters and gatherers?
(a) They were better nourished
(b) They had fewer diseases
(c) They worked fewer hours
(d) They died younger

4. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?
(a) A scientific guess
(b) Based on historical evidence
(c) A misconception
(d) True in all areas

5. Australia was joined together with which other area at the time that humans arrived?
(a) Africa
(b) South America
(c) Japan
(d) New Guinea

Short Answer Questions

1. All crops began as what?

2. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?

3. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?

4. What occurred between the Incas and Spanish forces?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened in the encounter between the Incas and the Spanish?

2. Why do some scholars argue that Europeans expanded and conquered others but China did not?

3. How does the shift to sedentary lifestyles change societies?

4. What advantages did the Spanish have over the Incas?

5. What are several stages in the development of plant domestication? Which plants were domesticated in each stage?

6. What are the four linguistic families found in China?

7. How did humans choose which plants to begin domesticating?

8. How are seeds dispersed?

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

10. What does Diamond argue determined when a group would adopt food production?

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