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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 "Speedboat to Polynesia".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The basic writing strategy employed by most people today is which of the following?
(a) Alphabet
(b) Phonetic signs
(c) Logograms
(d) Determinatives

2. Sedentary lifestyles led to what type of birth intervals?
(a) Longer
(b) More difficult
(c) Shorter
(d) Larger

3. Diamond argues that wealth and power are distributed unevenly because what developed at different times?
(a) Technology and metal tools.
(b) Agriculture and education
(c) Agriculture and metal tools
(d) Technology and education

4. When were the Polynesian islands settled?
(a) 10,000 B.C. to 5000 B.C.
(b) A. D. 1200 to A.D. 1800
(c) 1200 B.C. to around A.D. 1000
(d) 5000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.

5. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?
(a) Steel production
(b) A head start on guns, germs, and steel
(c) A head start on hunting and gathering techniques
(d) A resistance to disease

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the smallest societies known as?

2. Independent food production appears to have begun where?

3. Where did writing develop?

4. What does Diamond seek to explain in his research?

5. Most domesticated mammals have been what?

(see the answer key)

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