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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What special talent do woodpeckers have?
(a) Gathering honey.
(b) Digging grubs from tree trunks.
(c) Flying the fastest.
(d) Cracking bones.

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

3. In what year did Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1969.

4. What "only gets hungrier" the more it eats (6)?
(a) A Sapien.
(b) A zebra.
(c) A lion.
(d) A fire.

5. What did people not do millions of years ago?
(a) Look for mushrooms.
(b) Climb trees for fruit.
(c) Cook meat.
(d) Eat worms and snails.

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

7. What were the first tools made of?
(a) Seashells.
(b) Sticks and stones.
(c) Tin.
(d) Human teeth.

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

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

10. What did humans need before they cooked food?
(a) Patience.
(b) Plates.
(c) Salt and sugar.
(d) Sharp cutlery.

11. What does the name Ebu Gogo mean?
(a) Water Under Sky.
(b) Grandma Eats All.
(c) Water Cracks Rock.
(d) Giant Hunter.

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

13. What did people do when they stopped believing in the stories of the king and the special oil?
(a) They became angry and killed the king.
(b) They thought it would be good to still have a king anyways.
(c) They stole the bottle of special oil.
(d) They asked for there to be a vote.

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

15. How many people do most humans really know?
(a) Less than 150.
(b) 200-250.
(c) More than 250.
(d) 150-200.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a group of harvester ants?

2. Where is Neander Valley?

3. Other than humans, what type of animal that can cooperate in large numbers?

4. What is a small part of a corporation that you can own called?

5. Of which of these is there just one kind all over the world?

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