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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 "Blueprints and Borrowed Letters".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was one of the earliest crops?
(a) Wheat
(b) Dates
(c) Fruit trees
(d) Olives

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

3. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?
(a) Large populations
(b) The ability to store food
(c) The ability to conquer other groups
(d) A capitalist society

4. How did the Moriori avoid conflict?
(a) By moving to an area that no one wanted
(b) By choosing not to develop weapons
(c) By giving in when challenged
(d) By renouncing war

5. The basic writing strategy employed by most people today is which of the following?
(a) Alphabet
(b) Phonetic signs
(c) Determinatives
(d) Logograms

Short Answer Questions

1. What influenced life in the island societies of Polynesia?

2. Strawberries are adapted to have seeds spread by what animals?

3. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?

4. What animal helped groups overthrow and conquer other groups?

5. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?

(see the answer key)

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