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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. What was a standard Stone Age family unit?

2. What is the name of the famous Stone Age statue of a woman?

3. How many huts were found at Ohalo?

4. What would gatherers do if disease destroyed the local rabbit population?

5. How much did a mammoth weigh?

Short Essay Questions

1. 20,000 years ago, what would a gatherer do in an average day?

2. How were Stone Age footprints preserved until today?

3. What do animists believe?

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

5. What did hunter-gatherers know about their territory?

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

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

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

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

10. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the message of the story of Kenneth Gormly? What does the author want to tell you with this story?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Stone Age art that is referred to in the book and analyze its possible meanings.

Essay Topic 3

What responsibility to the future do humans have?

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