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I think our professor has gone nuts. He's telling us that agriculture was the worst thing that happened to mankind.

Choose the best answer to the questions below.

Man: I think our professor has gone nuts. He's telling us that agriculture was the worst thing that happened to mankind.

Woman: Maybe he wants to encourage an argument.

Man: No, really. He claims that hunter-gatherers actually lived longer and were healthier than early farmers, and that infectious disease were only spread in big communities.

Woman: Now that makes sense to me.

Man: You don't really mean that! Where would a hunter-gatherer get a doctor?

Woman: But that's not the argument, is it? The question is not how you best cure a disease, but how you get it in the first place; and if there are no people around...

Man: Nonsense! He even says that early farmers were shorter and showed more signs of malnutrition.

Woman: I'm sure he had a reason for saying that.

Man: He claims that farming communities lived mainly from one single crop without much variety in nutrition.

Woman: And you want to dispute that? What about the Irish potato famine? And that was less than a hundred years ago. Why would all those people have died if they had relied on more than only one crop?

Man: That's exactly what the professor said, but I just can't see some caveman being better off than me!

1. What does the man think about his professor?

a. He is crazy.

b. He has changed to a new diet.

c. He orders them to gather hunters.

d. He wants them to become farmers.

2. What word would best describe the man?

a. Dynamic

b. Innovative

c. Progressive

d. Narrow minded

3. According to the professor, whose lifestyle is the most advantageous?