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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. What example does the author not give when talking about how adults are persuaded by stories?
(a) People not eating certain foods because they think a god told them not to.
(b) People fighting other people because they think a god told them to.
(c) People wearing hats because they think a god likes those hats.
(d) People competing in sports that they think a god wants them to win.

2. Why did Floresians evolve to be smaller?
(a) Smaller caves.
(b) A lack of food.
(c) Larger predators.
(d) The climate.

3. What part of the body did Stone Age people paint on cave walls?
(a) Footprints.
(b) Faces.
(c) Handprints.
(d) Ears.

4. What had the animals of Australia not learned about humans?
(a) Their habitat.
(b) To fear them.
(c) How to hunt them.
(d) Their songs.

5. What did people do with god's gift?
(a) They gave it to the poor.
(b) They buried it.
(c) They ate it.
(d) They put it on the king's head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who might a gatherer blame if somebody got sick?

2. What is the cell's "instruction book" (20)?

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

4. What is useful about storytelling?

5. What did archaeologists not find at Ohalo?

(see the answer key)

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