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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 DNA instructions do human bodies have about sweet foods?
(a) If you find it, eat as much possible.
(b) It is poisonous. Give it to your enemy.
(c) Enjoy in moderation.
(d) Do not eat it.

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

3. What does the author imagine a woman screaming when she saw "strange humans in the valley below" (138)?
(a) Run away!
(b) Monsters! Monsters!
(c) Help, the enemy is here!
(d) Neanderthals!

4. Who discovered Lascaux Cave?
(a) A Moroccan explorer.
(b) Four French teenagers.
(c) An archaeologist and her son.
(d) A visiting doctor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word for someone who believes that animals can talk?

2. When the author imagines peace instead of a battle, what gifts were exchanged?

3. What did Stone Age people use to eat?

4. How old is the gravesite at Sunghir?

5. Where did the spacecraft land on the moon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Were people of the Stone Age mostly hunters or gatherers?

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

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

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

5. 20,000 years ago, what would a gatherer do in an average day?

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

7. What are orangutan families like?

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

9. Why have no Stone Age paintings of people or families been found?

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

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