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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) Generals and managers.
(b) Farmers and cheesemakers.
(c) Bankers and politicians.
(d) Poets and artists.

2. Other than humans, what type of animal that can cooperate in large numbers?
(a) Social insects.
(b) Pack wolves.
(c) Mice.
(d) Schools of sharks.

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

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

5. What is god's messenger that carries the gift for the king?
(a) A sheep.
(b) A warrior.
(c) A dove.
(d) An angel.

6. 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 Great Reorganization.
(d) The French Spring.

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

8. What are archaeologists?
(a) Scientists who dig up clues to the past.
(b) An ancient kind of human.
(c) Powerful sky wizards.
(d) People who study spiders.

9. Why do dolphins still exist?
(a) Because they are so strong.
(b) Because of their intelligence.
(c) Because they are such good swimmers.
(d) Because humans allow them.

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

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

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

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

14. Which of these is a "memory from millions of years ago" (4)?
(a) Dreaming of riding dinosaurs into the lake.
(b) Eating a giraffe.
(c) Waking up in the night, frightened of a monster under the bed.
(d) Wanting to steal your neighbor's lunch.

15. Three hundred years ago, what work did most people do?
(a) Delivery.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Farming.
(d) Construction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people do with god's gift?

2. What are the ancient humans who lived in Indonesia called?

3. What story does the author use as an example?

4. 100,000 years ago, how many Sapiens lived in Africa?

5. What special talent do woodpeckers have?

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