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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "How to Make an Almond".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Diamond feel about the traditional theories of human development?
(a) He feels that they are wrong.
(b) He feels that they are correct.
(c) He agrees with most of the argument but thinks that germs played a role.
(d) He believes that intelligence differences separated people.

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

3. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?
(a) How ancient farmers domesticated plants
(b) Why hunter-gatherers adopted plant production
(c) How hunter-gathereres found food
(d) Why domesticated animals became extinct

4. Where did the Maori live?
(a) New Zealand
(b) Tazmania
(c) Easter Island
(d) Hawaii

5. When did independent food production begin?
(a) 2,000 to 100 B.C.
(b) 5,000 to 4,000 B.C.
(c) 8500 to 8000 B.C.
(d) 10,000 to 9000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the importance of a written language?

2. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?

3. What weapon was used by the Incas?

4. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

5. Which of the following is not poisonous in the wild?

(see the answer key)

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