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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 is an important thing to say in scientific studies?
(a) "The mango cannot be improved."
(b) "I don't know."
(c) "Nothing can be proven for sure."
(d) "This is easy."

2. What does Tina say when her dad asks who got mud on the floor?
(a) An alien did it.
(b) I'll clean it up right away.
(c) It wasn't me. It was the Tina Corporation.
(d) It was my brother.

3. What does the author say is the benefit of a corporation?
(a) It lets people open restaurants.
(b) It encourages creativity.
(c) Everyone makes more money.
(d) Real people do not need to fear risk or responsibility.

4. In what year did Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1959.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is useful about storytelling?

2. What story do the French people follow today?

3. What could ancient Sapiens use to frighten away large animals?

4. What was the catastrophe that killed the other types of human?

5. Three hundred years ago, what work did most people do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do most people get bananas?

4. What is the story of the very special oil?

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

6. What is one theory of how Sapiens learned to tell stories?

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

8. What ability allowed Sapiens to cooperate?

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

10. What groups do ants organize themselves into?

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