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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How healthy were gatherers' diets?

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

3. Where do the Nayaka people live?

4. Who discovered Lascaux Cave?

5. What was found in the gravesite at Sunghir?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Lascaux Cave in France discovered?

2. What are orangutan families like?

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

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

5. Why were gatherers mostly safe from disease?

6. 20,000 years ago, what would a gatherer do in an average day?

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

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

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

10. What was the man at Sunghir buried with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are humans the most dangerous living things on Earth?

Essay Topic 2

Choose something that you eat regularly. What journey does it take to get to you? Who do you rely upon for this food?

Essay Topic 3

How important is storytelling in the book, and how important is it to modern humans?

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