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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do gibbons usually live?
(a) In large noisy communities.
(b) By themselves, rarely seeing another gibbon.
(c) In pairs, often staying together for many years and taking care of their children.
(d) Mothers live with their children until the young have grown enough to leave.

2. What did archaeologists not find at Ohalo?
(a) Leftover food.
(b) Bones.
(c) Stone tools.
(d) A set of arrows.

3. What DNA instructions do human bodies have about sweet foods?
(a) Do not eat it.
(b) It is poisonous. Give it to your enemy.
(c) Enjoy in moderation.
(d) If you find it, eat as much possible.

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

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

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

7. How healthy were gatherers' diets?
(a) Healthy, but without any variety.
(b) Not enough food.
(c) Varied, but without the necessary vitamins.
(d) Varied and nutritious.

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

9. Who left behind evidence at Le Rozel?
(a) Sapiens.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) French kings.
(d) Denisovans.

10. What is one piece of evidence showing cooperation between distant people?
(a) Signs of athletic competition.
(b) Friendship bracelets.
(c) Seashells far from the sea.
(d) Coins found far from where they were made.

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

12. Where did Stone Age people mostly live?
(a) Huts or tents.
(b) Caves.
(c) Small cities.
(d) Stone shelters.

13. Who discovered Lascaux Cave?
(a) Four French teenagers.
(b) A Moroccan explorer.
(c) A visiting doctor.
(d) An archaeologist and her son.

14. How long is a modern factory worker at their job for?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) 16 hours.
(c) 6 hours.
(d) 12 hours.

15. Why would Stone Age people not often hunt something like a mammoth or bison?
(a) For religious reasons.
(b) They did not like the taste of meat.
(c) It was difficult, dangerous, and required many people to work together.
(d) They did not need that much food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the body did Stone Age people paint on cave walls?

2. What was the name of the spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1969?

3. What did people in a band likely do together?

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

5. How old were the boys found at Sunghir?

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