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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sport does the author use as an example of strangers sharing the same beliefs about rules?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Tennis.

2. What two methods were used to start fires?
(a) Lightning and water.
(b) Friction and flint.
(c) Friction and gravity.
(d) Matches and glass.

3. What special talent do woodpeckers have?
(a) Digging grubs from tree trunks.
(b) Cracking bones.
(c) Gathering honey.
(d) Flying the fastest.

4. Who opened the first McDonald's?
(a) Richard and Maurice McDonald.
(b) Ella and Louis McDonald.
(c) Richard Tesla.
(d) Teoscar and Alejandro McDonald.

5. How did Sapiens develop this ability?
(a) They learned from Neanderthals.
(b) They learned from chimpanzees.
(c) They practised lying to their parents.
(d) It is uncertain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language did the lawyer tell their story in?

2. What kind of bears live in Romania?

3. What country's kings does the author talk about?

4. How would ancient humans have first gotten meat to eat?

5. Of which of these is there just one kind all over the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do you create fire using flint?

2. How does the author think Sapiens might be different if the other types of humans had survived?

3. How is evolution like water dripping on a rock?

4. How did Neanderthals compare to Sapiens?

5. What stories were told by the people of Flores Island?

6. How can a person find out if they have a Neanderthal ancestor?

7. How did human bodies change when they started to cook their food?

8. How did humans reach Flores Island?

9. When Sapiens were still living only in Africa, how did they compare to modern Sapiens?

10. Why is growing up especially hard for human children?

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