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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (143-181).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say is the benefit of a corporation?
(a) It encourages creativity.
(b) It lets people open restaurants.
(c) Everyone makes more money.
(d) Real people do not need to fear risk or responsibility.

2. What example does the author not give when talking about how adults are persuaded by stories?
(a) People not eating certain foods because they think a god told them not to.
(b) People fighting other people because they think a god told them to.
(c) People competing in sports that they think a god wants them to win.
(d) People wearing hats because they think a god likes those hats.

3. What sport does the author use as an example of strangers sharing the same beliefs about rules?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Soccer.

4. When did elephant birds and giant lemurs disappear from Madagascar?
(a) A million years ago.
(b) 85,000 years ago.
(c) 1,500 years ago.
(d) 250 years ago.

5. Which of the following is not a group of harvester ants?
(a) Warriors.
(b) Foragers.
(c) Climbers.
(d) Nurses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What DNA instructions do human bodies have about sweet foods?

2. What does Tina say when her dad asks who got mud on the floor?

3. How old were the boys found at Sunghir?

4. How did people hunt whales 1,000 years ago?

5. Who in particular faced danger during the Stone Age?

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