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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Armstrong say when he stepped on the moon?
(a) We can only put forward the foot that's on our leg.
(b) It's easy to step, hard to go forward.
(c) Today is a day that will forever be remembered.
(d) That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

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

6. What was the name of the astronaut who waited on the mother ship?
(a) Simon Chapman.
(b) Thomas Biggio.
(c) Maurice Richard.
(d) Michael Collins.

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

8. When the author imagines peace instead of a battle, what gifts were exchanged?
(a) Stone tools.
(b) Fox-teeth hats.
(c) Fur slippers.
(d) Ivory beads.

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

10. What was a standard Stone Age family unit?
(a) A woman and her children.
(b) Grandparents, parents, and children.
(c) It is unknown.
(d) Whoever wanted to stay in the hut.

11. What did Stone Age people use to eat?
(a) They used a knife and fork.
(b) They only used sporks.
(c) They ate with their hands.
(d) They used chopsticks.

12. What was the elephant that killed a Nayaka called?
(a) The elephant who bellows loudly.
(b) The elephant who lives by the river.
(c) The elephant who hunts in the dark.
(d) The elephant who always walks alone.

13. Where did the spacecraft land on the moon?
(a) The Bird Nest.
(b) Tranquility Base.
(c) Milton Crater.
(d) Ocean Landing.

14. Why does unhealthy food taste good?
(a) Humans' bodies think they are living in the Stone Age.
(b) Human tastes have changed to like burgers.
(c) It is high in vitamins.
(d) It is low in fat.

15. How many astronauts were on board the spacecraft that landed on the moon?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do gibbons usually live?

2. How long was a good gatherer's workday?

3. What did archaeologists not find at Ohalo?

4. Why do people not know about specific historical events from the Stone Age?

5. How old is the gravesite at Sunghir?

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