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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Stone Age bands tend to llive?
(a) Near the forest, where they could find fuel for fire.
(b) By the river, where there would often be fish.
(c) Next to the mountain, where they could shelter in caves.
(d) Wherever there was food at that time of year.

4. How long would it take a Stone Age person to walk from one end of their "home" to the other?
(a) A minute.
(b) Half an hour.
(c) 5 seconds.
(d) About a week.

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

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

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

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

9. What have archaeologists found around the remains of ancient campfires?
(a) Pieces of chairs.
(b) Stone chippings.
(c) Rotted paper.
(d) Signs of domesticated animals.

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

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

12. How old is the gravesite at Sunghir?
(a) 10,000 years old.
(b) 34,000 years old.
(c) 104,000 years old.
(d) 5,000 years old.

13. What does the author imagine a woman screaming when she saw "strange humans in the valley below" (138)?
(a) Run away!
(b) Neanderthals!
(c) Monsters! Monsters!
(d) Help, the enemy is here!

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would Stone Age people not often hunt something like a mammoth or bison?

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

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

4. What did the spirits' voices whisper to the spirit doctor?

5. How many kinds of fish were found in the garbage dump at Ohalo?

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