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

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

3. What did Stone Age people likely use to paint their handprints?
(a) A particular kind of leaf.
(b) A stick.
(c) A horsehair brush.
(d) A hollow tube.

4. What have archaeologists found around the remains of ancient campfires?
(a) Rotted paper.
(b) Pieces of chairs.
(c) Stone chippings.
(d) Signs of domesticated animals.

5. Who would usually have been the most powerful leader of a band?
(a) A band would not usually have one powerful leader.
(b) The son of the king would have total power.
(c) The oldest woman would control everything.
(d) The strongest warrior would take power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovered Lascaux Cave?

2. Who might a gatherer blame if somebody got sick?

3. When the author imagines the rat scientists of the future, where do they find the surviving human art?

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

5. Where do the Nayaka people live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the man at Sunghir buried with?

2. What is one theory about the Lascaux Cave painting of the human and the bison?

3. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

4. 20,000 years ago, what would a gatherer do in an average day?

5. Why did the Nayaka refuse to help capture an elephant that had killed one of them?

6. How was Lascaux Cave in France discovered?

7. How did gatherers' diets compare to those of modern factory workers?

8. What did archaeologists find in the Ohalo garbage dump?

9. What was "home" for Stone Age hunter-gatherers?

10. What method did Stone Age people likely use to paint their handprints on a cave wall?

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