Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Choose the best
answer.
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Which is a list of domesticated
animals?
A | goats, sheep,
pigs | B | cattle, wolves, bears | C | lions, gazelles, hyenas | D | chickens, water buffalo,
tigers |
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Where did people develop
terrace farming?
A | in hilly or mountainous
regions | C | in heavily forested
regions | B | along river floodplains | D | in rocky soils |
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Why did farmers invent the
plow?
A | to harvest their
crops | C | to cut stalks of
grain | B | to improve food storage | D | to prepare soil for planting |
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About how long ago did
agriculture spread to Europe and Asia?
A | 12,000 years
ago | C | 5,000 years
ago | B | 8,000 years
ago | D | 2,000 years
ago |
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What was one effect of surplus
food among agricultural people?
A | drought | C | slash-and-burn farming | B | increase in trade | D | ancestor worship |
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What did the world's
earliest farmers figure out for the first time?
A | how to find food plants that grew in
their region | B | how to cut down trees and dig in the earth | C | how the climate affected food
supplies | D | how to select wild seeds for
planting |
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Choose the term that best
completes the sentence.
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Some farmers were able just to
____ on what they grew, but others were able to produce a surplus.
A | pastoral | D | irrigation | B | livestock | E | barter | C | subsist |
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8.
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The people of Çatal
Hüyük had a plentiful supply of obsidian to use to ____ for other items they needed or
wanted.
A | pastoral | D | irrigation | B | livestock | E | barter | C | subsist |
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The technology of ____ required
early farmers to control water from rivers and lakes.
A | pastoral | D | irrigation | B | livestock | E | barter | C | subsist |
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10.
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A ____ society includes people
who guard their herds as the animals graze.
A | pastoral | D | irrigation | B | livestock | E | barter | C | subsist |
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11.
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Early farmers had a ready
supply of meat because they raised ____.
A | pastoral | D | irrigation | B | livestock | E | barter | C | subsist |
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