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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do people not know about specific historical events from the Stone Age?
(a) Nothing happened.
(b) Nobody wrote them down.
(c) Those in power destroyed the documents.
(d) People have forgotten the stories.

2. Where do the Nayaka people live?
(a) India.
(b) Bangladesh.
(c) Nepal.
(d) Sri Lanka.

3. 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.

4. How old is the painting in Lascaux Cave?
(a) 7,000 years old.
(b) 10,000 years old.
(c) 17,000 years old.
(d) 32,000 years old.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is the word for someone who believes that animals can talk?
(a) Deist.
(b) Theist.
(c) Animist.
(d) Spiritualist.

12. How did Stone Age people get paint?
(a) They soaked flowers in water.
(b) They traded for it with Neanderthals.
(c) They mashed up a certain kind of beetle.
(d) They crushed colorful stones and mixed them with water.

13. How old were the boys found at Sunghir?
(a) 9 and 12.
(b) 7 and 13.
(c) 15 and 16.
(d) 3 and 8.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a Stone Age gatherer do if they found ripe fruit?

2. What DNA instructions do human bodies have about sweet foods?

3. When the author imagines the rat scientists of the future, where do they find the surviving human art?

4. What is painted in Lascaux Cave?

5. What famous painting was found in Lascaux Cave in France?

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