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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. Ants also cooperate in large numbers, but how are they different from humans?
(a) They cannot all tell stories.
(b) Their stories make them greedy.
(c) They believe less useful stories.
(d) They never change the way they cooperate.

2. What did people not do millions of years ago?
(a) Look for mushrooms.
(b) Climb trees for fruit.
(c) Cook meat.
(d) Eat worms and snails.

3. Which of these is a "memory from millions of years ago" (4)?
(a) Wanting to steal your neighbor's lunch.
(b) Dreaming of riding dinosaurs into the lake.
(c) Waking up in the night, frightened of a monster under the bed.
(d) Eating a giraffe.

4. What does the name Ebu Gogo mean?
(a) Water Under Sky.
(b) Water Cracks Rock.
(c) Grandma Eats All.
(d) Giant Hunter.

5. What athletes does the author mention people watching on TV?
(a) Terence Crawford and Claressa Shields.
(b) Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu.
(c) Lionel Messi and Megan Rapinoe.
(d) Fernando Tatis and Kylian Mbappé

Short Answer Questions

1. What did archaeologists find in Stadel Cave?

2. What does "Homo sapien" mean?

3. About how much money does McDonald's earn every year?

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

5. What is an important thing to say in scientific studies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Other than Sapiens, what other types of animals can cooperate in large numbers?

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

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

4. What ability allowed Sapiens to cooperate?

5. How did the story of the Great Lion Spirit affect people?

6. How do you create fire using flint?

7. What is the difference between ant cooperation and human cooperation?

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

9. How did humans reach Flores Island?

10. What story allows humans to easily trade for things they need, even with strangers?

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