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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. Why were early crops chosen by farmers?
(a) They gave low yields in the wild
(b) They were not able to be stored
(c) They were already edible
(d) They grew slowly

2. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?
(a) Based on historical evidence
(b) True in all areas
(c) A misconception
(d) A scientific guess

3. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Emmer wheat
(b) Flax
(c) Rice
(d) Chickpea

4. Independent food production appears to have begun where?
(a) South America
(b) Siberia
(c) The eastern edge of Canada
(d) The Fertile Crescent

5. Why were the Europeans not affected by the infectious diseases that they brought to places like the Americas and Australia?
(a) They had already acquired immunity.
(b) They practiced better sanitation.
(c) They had a natural resistance to the diseases.
(d) They were genetically superior to other groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?

2. Which of these areas does not have a climate similar to the Fertile Crescent?

3. What was one of the biggest population shifts of all time?

4. Where were the earliest known stone tools with ground edges found?

5. What is true about the greater Polynesian area?

(see the answer key)

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