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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, according to the author, are even more powerful storytellers than lawyers?
(a) Bankers and politicians.
(b) Farmers and cheesemakers.
(c) Poets and artists.
(d) Generals and managers.

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

3. What is the cell's "instruction book" (20)?
(a) TNT.
(b) Jeans.
(c) Tablet.
(d) DNA.

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

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

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

7. What is the most powerful animal in the world?
(a) Bears.
(b) Ants.
(c) Humans.
(d) Gorillas.

8. Ants also cooperate in large numbers, but how are they different from humans?
(a) Their stories make them greedy.
(b) They believe less useful stories.
(c) They cannot all tell stories.
(d) They never change the way they cooperate.

9. How did Sapiens overcome the other humans?
(a) They had a superpower.
(b) They were stronger.
(c) They did not need as much food.
(d) They were faster.

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

11. What do historians call the time when the French people stopped believing in kings?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The End of Kings.
(c) The French Spring.
(d) The Great Reorganization.

12. What is "one of the most interesting games grown-ups play" (54)?
(a) Real estate.
(b) Bank.
(c) Corporation.
(d) Law.

13. What language is the word "Sapien"?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Italian.
(c) Latin.
(d) French.

14. About how many people work for McDonald's?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 520,000.
(c) 120,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

15. Which fox is the most successful hunter?
(a) The loudest one.
(b) The fastest one.
(c) The strongest one.
(d) The smartest one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who opened the first McDonald's?

2. How many people do most humans really know?

3. What does the name Ebu Gogo mean?

4. Who does the author not say helped Armstrong get to space?

5. What happened when the king's daughter said that she wanted to become the ruler?

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