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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "From Egalitarian to Kleptocracy".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true about hunting and gathering societies?
(a) They spent more time hunting than they did in farming.
(b) They worked more hours in each day than they did farming.
(c) All adopted agriculture as soon as introduced.
(d) Many did not adopt crops when they were introduced to them.

2. Australia was joined together with which other area at the time that humans arrived?
(a) New Guinea
(b) South America
(c) Japan
(d) Africa

3. Where did writing develop?
(a) Mesopotamia
(b) Europe
(c) China
(d) Australia

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

5. What slows the spread of domesticated plants?
(a) Different climates
(b) Areas of farmland
(c) The domestication of animals
(d) Similar climates

Short Answer Questions

1. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?

2. What factor meant that population could grow?

3. How many basic writing systems exist?

4. People often assume that there are what type of differences between people living on different continents?

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

(see the answer key)

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