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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue "The Future of Human History as a Science".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Diamond's primary question in Chapter 7?
(a) How ancient farmers domesticated plants
(b) How hunter-gathereres found food
(c) Why domesticated animals became extinct
(d) Why hunter-gatherers adopted plant production

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

3. Groups tended to turn to food production after what happened?
(a) Wild animal populations decreased.
(b) The number of seabirds increased.
(c) They discovered that the foods were more healthy.
(d) They discovered they could save time.

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

5. Studies have failed to show differences in what among people on different continents?
(a) Intelligence
(b) Ethnicity
(c) Race
(d) Norms

Short Answer Questions

1. All people were once what?

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

3. Why didn't Australians develop food production in ancient times?

4. How do inventions spread?

5. Groups who remained hunter-gatherers into the twentieth century lived in what types of areas?

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