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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did gatherers have expertise in?
(a) Making things.
(b) Making things, the surrounding plants and animals, and the surrounding territory.
(c) The plants and animals around them.
(d) Their territory.

2. According to animists, why can most people not talk to trees?
(a) Trees have stopped talking to people.
(b) Trees only speak to good people.
(c) The world is too noisy now.
(d) People have forgotten the language of trees.

3. What famous painting was found in Lascaux Cave in France?
(a) A wild horse.
(b) A wild onion.
(c) A dog-headed man.
(d) A mysterious woman.

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

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

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

7. What was the name of the spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1969?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Bison.
(c) Sparrow.
(d) Glory.

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

9. What would gatherers do if disease destroyed the local rabbit population?
(a) Look for a different food source like berries or fish.
(b) Face starvation.
(c) Research a cure for the disease.
(d) Wait for the rabbits to return.

10. Where do modern hunter-gatherers mostly live?
(a) Jungles and deserts.
(b) Caves.
(c) European forests.
(d) Antarctica.

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

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

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

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

15. How many kinds of fish were found in the garbage dump at Ohalo?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the spacecraft land on the moon?

2. Where was NASA's mission control on Earth?

3. Who was the Neanderthal who survived the imagined battled?

4. How much did a mammoth weigh?

5. Where did Stone Age people mostly live?

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