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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Collision at Cajamarca".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which large mammal was found in Australia about the time humans arrived?
(a) Saber tooth tigers
(b) Lions
(c) Wholly mammoth
(d) Giant kangaroo

3. The Giant Leap Forward occurred when?
(a) 50,000 years ago
(b) 10,000 years ago
(c) 2,000 years ago
(d) 25,000 years ago

4. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?
(a) A government
(b) Weapons
(c) Ancestors
(d) Goals

5. Which mammal did the Spanish have that the Incas did not?
(a) Cows
(b) Dogs
(c) Boars
(d) Horses

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the history of humans begin?

2. What was the importance of a written language?

3. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?

4. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?

5. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

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