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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4 (112-142).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did gatherers have expertise in?
(a) Making things, the surrounding plants and animals, and the surrounding territory.
(b) Their territory.
(c) The plants and animals around them.
(d) Making things.

2. What did archaeologists find in Stadel Cave?
(a) A human finger.
(b) A statue of a human with a lion's head.
(c) A statue of a human with a bird's head.
(d) A painting of a bison chasing a human.

3. What are the ancient humans who lived in Indonesia called?
(a) Felis catus.
(b) Mus musculus.
(c) Homo floresiensis.
(d) Homo neanderthalensis.

4. What is known about the objects Stone Age people owned?
(a) They were constantly finding seashells that they liked.
(b) They did not own many things.
(c) They owned much more stuff than people today.
(d) They were obsessive collectors.

5. What does the author imagine a woman screaming when she saw "strange humans in the valley below" (138)?
(a) Monsters! Monsters!
(b) Run away!
(c) Help, the enemy is here!
(d) Neanderthals!

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the catastrophe that killed the Floresians, Neanderthals, and Denisovans?

2. What was the catastrophe that killed the other types of human?

3. What does the Latin word "anima" mean?

4. Who might a gatherer blame if somebody got sick?

5. Where did Stone Age bands tend to llive?

(see the answer key)

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