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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did Sapiens start telling stories?
(a) 10,000 years ago.
(b) 33,000 years ago.
(c) Very long ago, when other humans still lived on Earth.
(d) 25,000 years ago.

4. What did archaeologists find in Denisova Cave?
(a) A collection of ivory beads.
(b) A burial site.
(c) An ancient finger bone.
(d) A painting of a buffalo.

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

6. Of which of these is there just one kind all over the world?
(a) Bears.
(b) Humans.
(c) Ants.
(d) Snakes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What were animals most afraid of?
(a) Fire.
(b) Lions.
(c) Humans.
(d) The dark.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do cleaner fish get their food?

3. What development allowed human brains to grow?

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

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

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