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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. Where do the Nayaka people live?
(a) Bangladesh.
(b) India.
(c) Nepal.
(d) Sri Lanka.

2. What did Stone Age people use to eat?
(a) They used a knife and fork.
(b) They only used sporks.
(c) They ate with their hands.
(d) They used chopsticks.

3. Who left behind evidence at Le Rozel?
(a) Neanderthals.
(b) Sapiens.
(c) French kings.
(d) Denisovans.

4. What did gatherers have expertise in?
(a) Their territory.
(b) Making things, the surrounding plants and animals, and the surrounding territory.
(c) Making things.
(d) The plants and animals around them.

5. Where do modern hunter-gatherers mostly live?
(a) Caves.
(b) Jungles and deserts.
(c) Antarctica.
(d) European forests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous painting was found in Lascaux Cave in France?

2. Why would Stone Age people not often hunt something like a mammoth or bison?

3. According to animists, why can most people not talk to trees?

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

5. How long would it take a Stone Age person to walk from one end of their "home" to the other?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Venus of Willendorf, and what can be learned from it?

4. How was Lascaux Cave in France discovered?

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

6. Why were gatherers mostly safe from disease?

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

8. What was the man at Sunghir buried with?

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

10. What are orangutan families like?

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