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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 (112-142).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How healthy were gatherers' diets?
(a) Not enough food.
(b) Healthy, but without any variety.
(c) Varied, but without the necessary vitamins.
(d) Varied and nutritious.

2. What did gatherers have expertise in?
(a) Making things.
(b) Their territory.
(c) The plants and animals around them.
(d) Making things, the surrounding plants and animals, and the surrounding territory.

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

4. What DNA instructions do human bodies have about sweet foods?
(a) If you find it, eat as much possible.
(b) It is poisonous. Give it to your enemy.
(c) Do not eat it.
(d) Enjoy in moderation.

5. What was the catastrophe that killed the other types of human?
(a) A terrible disease.
(b) An asteroid from space.
(c) A volcanic erruption.
(d) The spread of Sapiens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the gravesite at Sunghir?

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

3. What does the author imagine a woman screaming when she saw "strange humans in the valley below" (138)?

4. What two methods were used to start fires?

5. Why did Floresians evolve to be smaller?

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