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

2. What was a standard Stone Age family unit?
(a) It is unknown.
(b) Whoever wanted to stay in the hut.
(c) Grandparents, parents, and children.
(d) A woman and her children.

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

4. What did Armstrong say when he stepped on the moon?
(a) We can only put forward the foot that's on our leg.
(b) Today is a day that will forever be remembered.
(c) It's easy to step, hard to go forward.
(d) That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people mostly use to make things during the Stone Age?

2. What happened to the Ohalo huts?

3. Where do the Nayaka people live?

4. What did people in a band likely do together?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do humans like to eat foods that are bad for them?

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

5. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

6. What do animists believe?

7. How was Lascaux Cave in France discovered?

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

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

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

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