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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What could ancient Sapiens use to frighten away large animals?
(a) Fire.
(b) Drums.
(c) Stone walls.
(d) Sticks.

3. What kind of bears live in Romania?
(a) Panda bears.
(b) Brown bears.
(c) Polar bears.
(d) Sun bears.

4. What does "Homo sapien" mean?
(a) Wise human.
(b) Same human.
(c) Ancient human.
(d) Human from Hom Valley.

5. What happened when the oil ran out?
(a) God sent a new bottle.
(b) They stopped using it.
(c) They bought another bottle.
(d) It never did.

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

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

8. What development allowed human brains to grow?
(a) Studying math.
(b) Learning to fish.
(c) Cooking their food.
(d) Discovering the wheel.

9. How would ancient humans have first gotten meat to eat?
(a) They built complicated traps that their prey fell into.
(b) They hunted from the backs of horses.
(c) They waited until the lions and hyenas were done and ate the scraps.
(d) They set fire to bushes and ate any animals killed by the fire.

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

11. Which of the following is not a group of harvester ants?
(a) Nurses.
(b) Foragers.
(c) Climbers.
(d) Warriors.

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

13. Where is Neander Valley?
(a) Korea.
(b) Germany.
(c) Israel.
(d) Canada.

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

15. About how tall did adult Floresians evolve to be?
(a) 2 feet.
(b) 3 feet.
(c) 4 and a half feet.
(d) 5 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were animals most afraid of?

2. What special talent do woodpeckers have?

3. What is useful about storytelling?

4. Which animal came to Flores Island at the same time as humans?

5. What did archaeologists find in Denisova Cave?

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