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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. Other than humans, what type of animal that can cooperate in large numbers?
(a) Mice.
(b) Social insects.
(c) Schools of sharks.
(d) Pack wolves.

2. Who, according to the author, are even more powerful storytellers than lawyers?
(a) Farmers and cheesemakers.
(b) Generals and managers.
(c) Bankers and politicians.
(d) Poets and artists.

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

4. What did archaeologists find in Stadel Cave?
(a) A human finger.
(b) A painting of a bison chasing a human.
(c) A statue of a human with a bird's head.
(d) A statue of a human with a lion's head.

5. As human brains grew, what shrunk?
(a) Their legs.
(b) Their arms.
(c) Their hearts.
(d) Their stomachs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is a "memory from millions of years ago" (4)?

2. Why were Sapiens more powerful than Neanderthals?

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

4. What does the author say is the benefit of a corporation?

5. What special talent do woodpeckers have?

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