Volume 1 Chapter 1 Quiz

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. A plant that colonized the coastlines of the continents that emerged after Pangea broke up about 200 million years ago is the__________.

Avocado correct incorrect

Yam correct incorrect

Coconut correct incorrect

Dandelion correct incorrect

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. What is the main reason why early humans boiled the seeds of plants before consuming them?

Boiling softened the seeds and made them digestible correct incorrect

Boiling killed pathogens correct incorrect

Boiling improved the taste correct incorrect

Boiling increased the protein content correct incorrect

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. What aspect of Pliny's career facilitated the compilation of his Natural History?

He was a gardener correct incorrect

He as an apothecary correct incorrect

He was a senior Roman official who was posted to locations throughout the Empire correct incorrect

He was a doctor correct incorrect

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. Which stereotype of Stone-Age peoples does the author dispel?

Stone-Age peoples were violent correct incorrect

Stone-Age peoples could barely feed their families correct incorrect

Stone-Age peoples were herbivores correct incorrect

Stone-Age peoples were carnivores correct incorrect

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. The author provides the case study of the Nukak to offer proof that ______________.

Stone-Age peoples can be found in the twenty-first century. correct incorrect

Humans are inherently migratory correct incorrect

Hunting, gathering, and agriculture are not mutually exclusive correct incorrect

Plants and humans have a symbiotic relationship correct incorrect

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. Where was the turnip first domesticated?

Egypt correct incorrect

China correct incorrect

India correct incorrect

Afghanistan correct incorrect

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. By which route did domesticated apples, pears, cherries, plums, pears, and almonds make their way from Central Asia to China?

The Mediterranean correct incorrect

The Indian Ocean correct incorrect

The Silk Road correct incorrect

The Himalayas correct incorrect

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. Which three plants together provide 60 percent of all the calories consumed by humans across the planet?

Potatoes, wheat, corn correct incorrect

Rice, wheat, corn correct incorrect

Wheat, potatoes, rice correct incorrect

Corn, potatoes, rice correct incorrect

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. What technological innovation allowed the Chinese to move rice grain across the country at much lower cost?

The Grand Canal correct incorrect

The Great Wall correct incorrect

The Silk Road correct incorrect

The stirrup correct incorrect

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. The movement of exotic food plants into elite gardens was part of what larger feature of empires?

Empires were intimately connected to botany correct incorrect

Empires served as very large repositories of information correct incorrect

The elite pioneered the consumption of new foods correct incorrect

Elite gardens grew food for the lower classes correct incorrect