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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 found in the gravesite at Sunghir?

2. What did the spirits' voices whisper to the spirit doctor?

3. What part of the body did Stone Age people paint on cave walls?

4. Where was NASA's mission control on Earth?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How were Stone Age footprints preserved until today?

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

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

7. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

8. What do animists believe?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast people in the Stone Age with people today.

Essay Topic 2

What corporation has the largest impact on the world around you? Describe and discuss that impact.

Essay Topic 3

The Stone Age is given that name because of the objects that have survived from that period. What will the current period be called by future archaeologists?

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