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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did a Stone Age gatherer do if they found ripe fruit?
(a) Leave half of it for the next day.
(b) Eat as much of it as possible.
(c) Pickle it for the winter.
(d) Eat only a little so they would not gain weight.

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

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

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

6. Who was the Neanderthal who survived the imagined battled?
(a) A pregnant woman.
(b) A wounded warrior.
(c) An elderly man.
(d) A 3-year-old boy.

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

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

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

10. What did the spirits' voices whisper to the spirit doctor?
(a) Flee.
(b) Peace.
(c) Doom.
(d) War.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one piece of evidence showing cooperation between distant people?

2. How much did a mammoth weigh?

3. Where did Stone Age people mostly live?

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

5. Roughly how long would it take someone to carve a single bead out of ivory?

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