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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. The Giant Leap Forward was which of the following?
(a) The first Home Sapiens
(b) The development of water going crafts
(c) Humans arriving in North America
(d) The first use of stone tools

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

3. How did Native American hunting and gathering societies become farmers?
(a) By domesticating wild yaks
(b) By conquering the Spanish
(c) By acquiring Mexican crops
(d) By acquiring Canadian crops

4. All crops began as what?
(a) A native plant
(b) A domesticated plant
(c) A wild plant species
(d) A foreign plant

5. What is a factor that influenced a group to adopt agriculture?
(a) The decline of wild foods
(b) The decreased availability of domesticated plants
(c) Agriculture made them more vulnerable to surrounding groups
(d) The decrease in the population

Short Answer Questions

1. Crops that began food production in an area are known as what?

2. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

3. What was the importance of a written language?

4. Which of the following did the inhabitants of the Polynesian islands not share?

5. What crop was domesticated in Ethiopia before spreading around the globe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is climate used as an explanation for the uneven distribution of wealth and power?

2. Why does Diamond believe that a shift in climate is not the best explanation for the mass extinctions of animals?

3. What are some of the changes that have occurred in plants because of domestication?

4. Why was a north-south axis a disadvantage in the domestication of plants?

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

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

7. How did the ability to use domesticated plants and animals differentiate the Polynesian societies?

8. What is surprising about where food production developed early?

9. Why did Eurasia have an advantage in the domestication of animals?

10. How are seeds dispersed?

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