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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. How old is the Stone Age evidence at Le Rozel?
(a) 80,000 years.
(b) 300,000 years.
(c) 10,000 years.
(d) 3,000 years.

2. What is known about the objects Stone Age people owned?
(a) They owned much more stuff than people today.
(b) They were obsessive collectors.
(c) They did not own many things.
(d) They were constantly finding seashells that they liked.

3. When the author imagines the rat scientists of the future, where do they find the surviving human art?
(a) Art galleries.
(b) Subway stations.
(c) Museums.
(d) Mansions.

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

5. Who in particular faced danger during the Stone Age?
(a) Children.
(b) Leaders.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Neanderthal who survived the imagined battled?

2. What was found in the gravesite at Sunghir?

3. How much did a mammoth weigh?

4. Where did the spacecraft land on the moon?

5. Who would usually have been the most powerful leader of a band?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

6. What was the man at Sunghir buried with?

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

8. What are orangutan families like?

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

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

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