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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 old were the boys found at Sunghir?

2. How long is a modern factory worker at their job for?

3. What did Stone Age people use to eat?

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

5. How many astronauts were on board the spacecraft that landed on the moon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is one theory about the Lascaux Cave painting of the human and the bison?

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

4. What are orangutan families like?

5. How were Stone Age footprints preserved until today?

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

7. Why were gatherers mostly safe from disease?

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

9. 20,000 years ago, what would a gatherer do in an average day?

10. How was Lascaux Cave in France discovered?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What is the main lesson the book's author wants to teach its readers?

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