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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) People have forgotten the stories.
(b) Nobody wrote them down.
(c) Those in power destroyed the documents.
(d) Nothing happened.

2. Where do modern hunter-gatherers mostly live?
(a) Antarctica.
(b) Caves.
(c) European forests.
(d) Jungles and deserts.

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

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

5. How old is the Stone Age evidence at Le Rozel?
(a) 80,000 years.
(b) 300,000 years.
(c) 3,000 years.
(d) 10,000 years.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What was the elephant that killed a Nayaka called?
(a) The elephant who hunts in the dark.
(b) The elephant who always walks alone.
(c) The elephant who lives by the river.
(d) The elephant who bellows loudly.

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

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

14. What is known about the objects Stone Age people owned?
(a) They did not own many things.
(b) They were obsessive collectors.
(c) They were constantly finding seashells that they liked.
(d) They owned much more stuff than people today.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many astronauts were on board the spacecraft that landed on the moon?

2. Who might a gatherer blame if somebody got sick?

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

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

5. Who explored Altamira Cave?

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