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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which animal came to Flores Island at the same time as humans?
(a) Bears.
(b) Elephants.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Giraffes.

2. What two methods were used to start fires?
(a) Friction and gravity.
(b) Friction and flint.
(c) Lightning and water.
(d) Matches and glass.

3. What country's kings does the author talk about?
(a) Portugal.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

4. What happened when the king's daughter said that she wanted to become the ruler?
(a) They crowned her as their first queen.
(b) They found out that she was not the king's daughter.
(c) They laughed and said only boys could be kings.
(d) They put the oil on her head, but it did not work.

5. What does Tina say when her dad asks who got mud on the floor?
(a) It was my brother.
(b) An alien did it.
(c) I'll clean it up right away.
(d) It wasn't me. It was the Tina Corporation.

6. What is an important thing to say in scientific studies?
(a) "Nothing can be proven for sure."
(b) "I don't know."
(c) "The mango cannot be improved."
(d) "This is easy."

7. Who opened the first McDonald's?
(a) Teoscar and Alejandro McDonald.
(b) Ella and Louis McDonald.
(c) Richard and Maurice McDonald.
(d) Richard Tesla.

8. 100,000 years ago, how many Sapiens lived in Africa?
(a) 150,000.
(b) Fewer than 100,000.
(c) 125,000.
(d) More than 250,000.

9. About how much money does McDonald's earn every year?
(a) $600 billion.
(b) $1.6 billion.
(c) $6 billion.
(d) $6 million.

10. How did Sapiens develop this ability?
(a) They practised lying to their parents.
(b) They learned from Neanderthals.
(c) They learned from chimpanzees.
(d) It is uncertain.

11. What story does the author use as an example?
(a) The Great Lion Spirit.
(b) The Reason for Water.
(c) The First Human.
(d) The Gorilla in the Sky.

12. Who does the author not say helped Armstrong get to space?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Athletes.
(c) Miners.
(d) Mathematicians.

13. What does the author say is the benefit of a corporation?
(a) It lets people open restaurants.
(b) Everyone makes more money.
(c) Real people do not need to fear risk or responsibility.
(d) It encourages creativity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the lawyer need to do before telling the story of the McDonald's Corporation?

2. What does "Homo sapien" mean?

3. How would ancient humans have first gotten meat to eat?

4. When was the catastrophe that killed the Floresians, Neanderthals, and Denisovans?

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

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