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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the Latin word "anima" mean?
(a) Spirit.
(b) Breathe.
(c) Life.
(d) Move.
2. What did people in a band likely do together?
(a) Searched for food.
(b) Told stories.
(c) Cooked and ate.
(d) Almost everything.
3. Who in particular faced danger during the Stone Age?
(a) Children.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Parents.
4. How did Stone Age people get paint?
(a) They mashed up a certain kind of beetle.
(b) They soaked flowers in water.
(c) They crushed colorful stones and mixed them with water.
(d) They traded for it with Neanderthals.
5. How many kinds of fish were found in the garbage dump at Ohalo?
(a) None.
(b) 15.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.
6. 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.
7. How old were the boys found at Sunghir?
(a) 9 and 12.
(b) 15 and 16.
(c) 3 and 8.
(d) 7 and 13.
8. Who explored Altamira Cave?
(a) Marcelino and his daughter Maria.
(b) A farmer who had gotten lost.
(c) Maurice McDonald.
(d) Two college students.
9. When was Lascaux Cave discovered?
(a) 1708.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1940.
10. When the author imagines the rat scientists of the future, where do they find the surviving human art?
(a) Museums.
(b) Mansions.
(c) Art galleries.
(d) Subway stations.
11. Where do the Nayaka people live?
(a) Sri Lanka.
(b) Bangladesh.
(c) Nepal.
(d) India.
12. What country is Sunghir in?
(a) Russia.
(b) Uzbekistan.
(c) Iran.
(d) India.
13. What would an animist do if they thought they had angered a tree?
(a) They would ask the tree for forgiveness.
(b) They would run away from the tree.
(c) They would cut down the tree.
(d) They would threaten the tree with fire.
14. Why do people not know about specific historical events from the Stone Age?
(a) People have forgotten the stories.
(b) Nobody wrote them down.
(c) Those in power destroyed the documents.
(d) Nothing happened.
15. What happened to the Ohalo huts?
(a) They were destroyed with stone tools.
(b) They burned down.
(c) They were swept away in a flood.
(d) Lava destroyed them.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does unhealthy food taste good?
2. Who would usually have been the most powerful leader of a band?
3. What was the elephant that killed a Nayaka called?
4. What have archaeologists found around the remains of ancient campfires?
5. How long would it take a Stone Age person to walk from one end of their "home" to the other?
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