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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. What is true of the first farmers in many areas as compared to the hunters and gatherers?
(a) They died younger
(b) They were better nourished
(c) They worked fewer hours
(d) They had fewer diseases

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

3. What is one explanation that Diamond gives for why food production didn't begin earlier in some ecologically better areas?
(a) There were no large mammals available.
(b) The environment in the area was too poor for farming.
(c) People weren't intelligent enough to figure it out.
(d) There was some problem with the wild plants available.

4. Which of these food items was domesticated most recently?
(a) Olives
(b) Pecans
(c) Peas
(d) Strawberries

5. The large domesticated mammals were all domesticated before what date?
(a) 10,000 B.C.
(b) 8000 B.C.
(c) 2500 B.C.
(d) 5000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Moriori lived as which of the following?

2. Why was the first occupation of Australia important?

3. Diamond argues that examining Polynesia helps the reader see what?

4. What factor meant that population could grow?

5. In the early stages of food production, people did which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Eurasia have an advantage in the domestication of animals?

2. Why are the societies of Asia and the Pacific important according to Diamond?

3. Why was writing an advantage to the groups that had it?

4. Infectious diseases that become epidemics tend to share what characteristics?

5. How do historical sciences differ from non-historical sciences?

6. What are some of the changes that have occurred in plants because of domestication?

7. What are the four different types of societies that Diamond discusses?

8. What does Diamond argue determined when a group would adopt food production?

9. What are several stages in the development of plant domestication? Which plants were domesticated in each stage?

10. How did the Maori and the Moriori differ?

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