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

2. The Moriori lived as which of the following?
(a) Feudal lords
(b) Farmers
(c) Slaves
(d) Hunters and gatherers

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

4. Hunter-gatherers in southeastern Europe adopted crops and agriculture from where?
(a) North America
(b) Africa
(c) China
(d) Southwestern Asia

5. Which of the following did domestic livestock not provide people?
(a) Power
(b) Meat
(c) Fertilizer for other plants
(d) Access to water

Short Answer Questions

1. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?

2. What weapons did the Spanish have in their encounter with the Incas?

3. Independent food production began in how many places?

4. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?

5. Why did the transition to food production not happen earlier?

(see the answer key)

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