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

2. When was Lascaux Cave discovered?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1708.
(d) 1857.

3. How old is the painting in Lascaux Cave?
(a) 32,000 years old.
(b) 10,000 years old.
(c) 17,000 years old.
(d) 7,000 years old.

4. What would an animist do if they thought they had angered a tree?
(a) They would run away from the tree.
(b) They would ask the tree for forgiveness.
(c) They would cut down the tree.
(d) They would threaten the tree with fire.

5. Where is Ohalo?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Israel.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Syria.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many kinds of fish were found in the garbage dump at Ohalo?

2. What country is Sunghir in?

3. What weapons were used in the imagined battle between Sapiens and Neanderthals?

4. What have archaeologists found around the remains of ancient campfires?

5. How old is the gravesite at Sunghir?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the name "Stone Age" misleading?

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

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

4. 20,000 years ago, what would a gatherer do in an average day?

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

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

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

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

9. How was Lascaux Cave in France discovered?

10. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

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