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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Domesticated animals need to have what type of disposition?
(a) Dangerous
(b) Wild
(c) Calm
(d) Nervous
2. How do archeologists date food production?
(a) X-rays of the food
(b) Radiocarbon dating of materials at the site
(c) Genetic testing of human descendents
(d) An examination of written texts
3. 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 resistance to disease
(d) A head start on hunting and gathering techniques
4. When did the history of humans begin?
(a) 15 million years ago
(b) 1 million years ago
(c) 7 million years ago
(d) 2 thousand years ago
5. Why did the transition to food production not happen earlier?
(a) There were no tools for food production
(b) Wild plants were not available
(c) Wild animals were widely available
(d) People were involved in creating weapons
Short Answer Questions
1. Why were early crops chosen by farmers?
2. Groups tended to turn to food production after what happened?
3. What argument about the mass extinction of large mammals does Diamond argue against?
4. What effect did infectious diseases have on the encounter between the Spanish and Incas?
5. The Giant Leap Forward occurred when?
Short Essay Questions
1. What advantages did the Fertile Crescent have in domesticating plants?
2. Why does Diamond object to many of the traditional views on the uneven distribution of wealth and power?
3. How are seeds dispersed?
4. Why do some scholars argue that Europeans expanded and conquered others but China did not?
5. Why did plant domestication and food production did not develop earlier in some of the ecologically better areas?
6. Why is the axis of a continent important?
7. What are several stages in the development of plant domestication? Which plants were domesticated in each stage?
8. Where did food production develop independently?
9. Why did infectious diseases give some groups an advantage over others?
10. Why does Diamond argue that wealth and power are distributed unevenly across the globe?
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