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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. How long would it take a Stone Age person to walk from one end of their "home" to the other?
(a) Half an hour.
(b) A minute.
(c) About a week.
(d) 5 seconds.

2. What likely caused the disappearance of Australia's giant animals?
(a) Neandethals.
(b) Spiders.
(c) The climate.
(d) Sapiens.

3. Where did Stone Age bands tend to llive?
(a) Near the forest, where they could find fuel for fire.
(b) By the river, where there would often be fish.
(c) Next to the mountain, where they could shelter in caves.
(d) Wherever there was food at that time of year.

4. What are the Galápagos Islands famous for?
(a) Ostriches.
(b) Kangaroos.
(c) Giant tortoises.
(d) Cave art.

5. Which of these could you use to identify a new kind of human?
(a) A finger bone.
(b) An abandoned campsite.
(c) A stone tool.
(d) A cave painting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What "only gets hungrier" the more it eats (6)?

3. Where is Neander Valley?

4. 100,000 years ago, what humans lived in Hawaii?

5. Who would usually have been the most powerful leader of a band?

(see the answer key)

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