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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the famous Stone Age statue of a woman?
(a) Saturn of Munich.
(b) Venus of Willendorf.
(c) Neptune of Dortmund.
(d) Mercury of Wollstonecraft

2. What did Stone Age people use to eat?
(a) They used chopsticks.
(b) They ate with their hands.
(c) They only used sporks.
(d) They used a knife and fork.

3. What DNA instructions do human bodies have about sweet foods?
(a) If you find it, eat as much possible.
(b) Enjoy in moderation.
(c) It is poisonous. Give it to your enemy.
(d) Do not eat it.

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

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

6. How old were the boys found at Sunghir?
(a) 7 and 13.
(b) 9 and 12.
(c) 3 and 8.
(d) 15 and 16.

7. Why does unhealthy food taste good?
(a) It is low in fat.
(b) Human tastes have changed to like burgers.
(c) It is high in vitamins.
(d) Humans' bodies think they are living in the Stone Age.

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

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

10. What was found in the gravesite at Sunghir?
(a) 34,000-year-old bread.
(b) Bison-horn beads and wolf teeth.
(c) The horn of a rhino.
(d) Mammoth-ivory beads and fox teeth.

11. When was Lascaux Cave discovered?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1708.
(d) 1983.

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

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

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

15. 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 need that much food.
(c) They did not like the taste of meat.
(d) For religious reasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would gatherers do if disease destroyed the local rabbit population?

2. What was the name of the spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1969?

3. How do gibbons usually live?

4. What does the author imagine a woman screaming when she saw "strange humans in the valley below" (138)?

5. Where is Ohalo?

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