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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the Stone Age evidence at Le Rozel?
(a) 80,000 years.
(b) 10,000 years.
(c) 300,000 years.
(d) 3,000 years.

2. Where was NASA's mission control on Earth?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Houston.
(c) Columbus.
(d) Miami.

3. What would an animist do if they thought they had angered a tree?
(a) They would threaten the tree with fire.
(b) They would run away from the tree.
(c) They would ask the tree for forgiveness.
(d) They would cut down the tree.

4. Who might a gatherer blame if somebody got sick?
(a) A ghost.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Their enemy.
(d) A neighbor.

5. When the author imagines the rat scientists of the future, where do they find the surviving human art?
(a) Subway stations.
(b) Museums.
(c) Mansions.
(d) Art galleries.

6. What part of the body did Stone Age people paint on cave walls?
(a) Ears.
(b) Faces.
(c) Footprints.
(d) Handprints.

7. Roughly when were the Vedas composed?
(a) 2,500 years ago.
(b) 3,000 years ago.
(c) 1,500 years ago.
(d) 2,000 years ago.

8. How many huts were found at Ohalo?
(a) 3.
(b) 25.
(c) 6.
(d) 40.

9. What weapons were used in the imagined battle between Sapiens and Neanderthals?
(a) Slings and stones.
(b) Iron spears.
(c) Wooden clubs and stone-tipped spears.
(d) Bows and arrows.

10. What is known about the objects Stone Age people owned?
(a) They owned much more stuff than people today.
(b) They were constantly finding seashells that they liked.
(c) They did not own many things.
(d) They were obsessive collectors.

11. What was found in the gravesite at Sunghir?
(a) Mammoth-ivory beads and fox teeth.
(b) 34,000-year-old bread.
(c) Bison-horn beads and wolf teeth.
(d) The horn of a rhino.

12. What did archaeologists find at Le Rozel on the Atlantic coast of France?
(a) A cluster of huts.
(b) A painting of a cat.
(c) More than 250 footprints.
(d) A warship.

13. How did the Ohalo site survive to be studied?
(a) It was incredibly well made.
(b) It was in a desert where it never rained.
(c) It was preserved by hardened mud.
(d) It was built in a cave.

14. What is the name of the famous Stone Age statue of a woman?
(a) Mercury of Wollstonecraft
(b) Venus of Willendorf.
(c) Neptune of Dortmund.
(d) Saturn of Munich.

15. What is painted in Lascaux Cave?
(a) A series of hands.
(b) A wild horse.
(c) A bird-headed man and a bison.
(d) A giant.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author imagines peace instead of a battle, what gifts were exchanged?

2. What was the elephant that killed a Nayaka called?

3. How old were the boys found at Sunghir?

4. What is the word for someone who believes that animals can talk?

5. How long is a modern factory worker at their job for?

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