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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 axis is most conducive to the spread of food production?
(a) North-South
(b) Northeast-Southwest
(c) North-West
(d) East-West

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

3. Independent food production began in how many places?
(a) A few
(b) Only one
(c) Only one place on each continent
(d) Many places

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

5. What influenced life in the island societies of Polynesia?
(a) The environment
(b) Trade with Europeans
(c) The tropical climate on all islands
(d) The closeness to North America

Short Answer Questions

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

2. All crops began as what?

3. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?

4. What advantage did horses provide?

5. Which of the following did domestic livestock not provide people?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did writing develop and what was it like?

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

4. How did the Maori and the Moriori differ?

5. Fourteen species of large mammals were domesticated. Why weren't other species?

6. What was the development of humans like before the Great Leap Forward?

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

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

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

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

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