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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did people in a band likely do together?
(a) Cooked and ate.
(b) Almost everything.
(c) Told stories.
(d) Searched for food.

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

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

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

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

8. What did archaeologists not find at Ohalo?
(a) Leftover food.
(b) Bones.
(c) Stone tools.
(d) A set of arrows.

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

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

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

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

13. Who explored Altamira Cave?
(a) Marcelino and his daughter Maria.
(b) Maurice McDonald.
(c) A farmer who had gotten lost.
(d) Two college students.

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

15. When the author imagines the rat scientists of the future, where do they find the surviving human art?
(a) Museums.
(b) Art galleries.
(c) Mansions.
(d) Subway stations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Ohalo huts?

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

3. How long is a modern factory worker at their job for?

4. How old were the boys found at Sunghir?

5. What would an animist do if they thought they had angered a tree?

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