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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. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?
(a) Calm
(b) Dangerous
(c) Wild
(d) Nervous

2. The axis of a continent does not affect the spread of what?
(a) Esteem
(b) Animals
(c) Technologies
(d) Crops

3. Which of the following was not a domesticated animal?
(a) Cows
(b) Bears
(c) Camels
(d) Reindeer

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

5. Diamond suggests that inventions occur because of what?
(a) Superior intelligence
(b) Peoples' curiosity and tinkering
(c) Perceived need
(d) Greater creativity

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did it take people longer to cultivate fruit tress?

2. What is one explanation that Diamond gives for why food production didn't begin earlier in some ecologically better areas?

3. What was the importance of a written language?

4. What is the first stage in the transition of diseases to humans?

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

(see the answer key)

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