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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 long was a good gatherer's workday?

2. What DNA instructions do human bodies have about sweet foods?

3. Why do people not know about specific historical events from the Stone Age?

4. What would an animist do if they thought they had angered a tree?

5. What was found in the gravesite at Sunghir?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were gatherers mostly safe from disease?

2. 20,000 years ago, what would a gatherer do in an average day?

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

4. What do animists believe?

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

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

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

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

9. How was Lascaux Cave in France discovered?

10. Why have no Stone Age paintings of people or families been found?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What would life have been like in a Stone Age camp? How would it be organized? Where would people live, and what would they do in a regular day?

Essay Topic 2

What were the pros and cons of life in the Stone Age?

Essay Topic 3

Why are there not more types of humans on Earth today?

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