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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 do gibbons usually live?
(a) In large noisy communities.
(b) By themselves, rarely seeing another gibbon.
(c) In pairs, often staying together for many years and taking care of their children.
(d) Mothers live with their children until the young have grown enough to leave.

2. Why do people not know about specific historical events from the Stone Age?
(a) People have forgotten the stories.
(b) Those in power destroyed the documents.
(c) Nobody wrote them down.
(d) Nothing happened.

3. Where is Flores Island?
(a) Alaska.
(b) Indonesia.
(c) Madagascar.
(d) Italy.

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

5. Who left behind evidence at Le Rozel?
(a) Neanderthals.
(b) Sapiens.
(c) French kings.
(d) Denisovans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many astronauts were on board the spacecraft that landed on the moon?

2. Roughly when were the Vedas composed?

3. What example does the author not give when talking about how adults are persuaded by stories?

4. What happened 50 years ago?

5. Where did Stone Age bands tend to llive?

(see the answer key)

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