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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2 (35 - 74).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why might human ancestors have cracked open a bone?
(a) To feed the pieces to their cat.
(b) To use the bone dust in making soap.
(c) To make a pen.
(d) To eat the juicy stuff inside.

2. How can it be know that some people have Neanderthal ancestors?
(a) By studying their DNA.
(b) They are unusually good at swimming.
(c) You can tell by looking at them.
(d) They have especially large brains.

3. When was the catastrophe that killed the Floresians, Neanderthals, and Denisovans?
(a) 50,000 years ago.
(b) 100,000 years ago.
(c) 5,000 years ago.
(d) 10,000 years ago.

4. About how many people work for McDonald's?
(a) 120,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 520,000.

5. How long does the process of evolution take?
(a) Billions of years.
(b) 500 years.
(c) A few centuries.
(d) Thousands of years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Three hundred years ago, what work did most people do?

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

4. What were animals most afraid of?

5. What did archaeologists find in Denisova Cave?

(see the answer key)

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