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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 happened to the Ohalo huts?
(a) They were swept away in a flood.
(b) Lava destroyed them.
(c) They burned down.
(d) They were destroyed with stone tools.

2. What did people mostly use to make things during the Stone Age?
(a) Furs and tin.
(b) Stone.
(c) Wood, straw, and animal hide.
(d) Wood and stone.

3. Why would Stone Age people not often hunt something like a mammoth or bison?
(a) They did not need that much food.
(b) They did not like the taste of meat.
(c) It was difficult, dangerous, and required many people to work together.
(d) For religious reasons.

4. What country is Sunghir in?
(a) India.
(b) Iran.
(c) Russia.
(d) Uzbekistan.

5. How many huts were found at Ohalo?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What DNA instructions do human bodies have about sweet foods?

2. Where did Stone Age bands tend to llive?

3. Who left behind evidence at Le Rozel?

4. What was found in the gravesite at Sunghir?

5. Where did the spacecraft land on the moon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

2. Why were accidents more dangerous during the Stone Age?

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

4. What have archaeologists learned in studying the stone remains around ancient campfires?

5. What was the man at Sunghir buried with?

6. Why were gatherers mostly safe from disease?

7. Why do modern humans not know of any specific historical events during the Stone Age?

8. How were Stone Age footprints preserved until today?

9. Why is it a common mistake to think that Stone Age people lived in caves?

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

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