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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Moriori lived as which of the following?
(a) Feudal lords
(b) Hunters and gatherers
(c) Farmers
(d) Slaves

2. Which area was prominent in the development of weapons?
(a) South America
(b) Western Europe
(c) North America
(d) Africa

3. How does Diamond explain the mass extinction of large mammals in some areas?
(a) The ice age
(b) Germs introduced by humans
(c) Humans killed or indirectly eliminated them.
(d) A large large comet hit the earth.

4. What allowed the Maori to have specialists and warriors as part of their society?
(a) A capitalist society
(b) Greater intelligence
(c) Weapons
(d) Stored crop surpluses

5. Which of these areas does not have a climate similar to the Fertile Crescent?
(a) Polynesia
(b) Southwestern Australia
(c) Western Europe
(d) Chile

6. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?
(a) Eurocentric
(b) Cultural
(c) Historical
(d) Asiatic

7. How did Native American hunting and gathering societies become farmers?
(a) By domesticating wild yaks
(b) By acquiring Canadian crops
(c) By conquering the Spanish
(d) By acquiring Mexican crops

8. Independent food production began in how many places?
(a) Many places
(b) A few
(c) Only one place on each continent
(d) Only one

9. What animal helped groups overthrow and conquer other groups?
(a) Yaks
(b) Horses
(c) Dogs
(d) Lions

10. When did independent food production begin?
(a) 5,000 to 4,000 B.C.
(b) 10,000 to 9000 B.C.
(c) 8500 to 8000 B.C.
(d) 2,000 to 100 B.C.

11. Germs from what produced epidemics in Native American and Australian societies?
(a) Air-born organisms
(b) Dirt
(c) Domesticated animals
(d) Contaminated water

12. The Maori and Moriori had what in common?
(a) Weapons
(b) Goals
(c) Ancestors
(d) A government

13. Eurasia's axis runs in what type of line?
(a) Vertical
(b) Parallel
(c) Horizontal
(d) Perpendicular

14. What is not an advantage that the Fertile Crescent had in food production?
(a) The area had cool summers and dry winters.
(b) It was in the Mediterranean climate.
(c) There were many plants that could be domesticated.
(d) The area was high in rainfall.

15. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?
(a) How the loss of large mammals gave societies an advantage
(b) How environments shape societies
(c) How shared culture is important
(d) How war can end if groups decide to stop

Short Answer Questions

1. Independent food production appears to have begun where?

2. Some people feel that explaining why one group dominates another does what?

3. What is not one of the eight "founder" crops that started in the Fertile Crescent?

4. The ability of societies to have non-food producing specialists, like soldiers, was due to what?

5. What are "selfer" plants?

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