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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 "one of the most interesting games grown-ups play" (54)?
(a) Real estate.
(b) Law.
(c) Corporation.
(d) Bank.

2. What happened when the king's daughter said that she wanted to become the ruler?
(a) They crowned her as their first queen.
(b) They put the oil on her head, but it did not work.
(c) They laughed and said only boys could be kings.
(d) They found out that she was not the king's daughter.

3. Who does the author not say helped Armstrong get to space?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Miners.
(c) Mathematicians.
(d) Athletes.

4. About how many people work for McDonald's?
(a) 520,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 2,000,000.
(d) 120,000.

5. What "only gets hungrier" the more it eats (6)?
(a) A lion.
(b) A Sapien.
(c) A zebra.
(d) A fire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who opened the first McDonald's?

3. What does Tina say when her dad asks who got mud on the floor?

4. What does the name Ebu Gogo mean?

5. What story does the author use as an example?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do most people get bananas?

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

4. How did humans reach Flores Island?

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

6. How do you create fire using flint?

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

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

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

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

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