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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 (143-181).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was found in the gravesite at Sunghir?
(a) Bison-horn beads and wolf teeth.
(b) 34,000-year-old bread.
(c) Mammoth-ivory beads and fox teeth.
(d) The horn of a rhino.

2. What is a small part of a corporation that you can own called?
(a) A portion.
(b) A slice.
(c) A scoop.
(d) A share.

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

4. What did people do when they stopped believing in the stories of the king and the special oil?
(a) They stole the bottle of special oil.
(b) They became angry and killed the king.
(c) They thought it would be good to still have a king anyways.
(d) They asked for there to be a vote.

5. Which of these could you use to identify a new kind of human?
(a) A cave painting.
(b) An abandoned campsite.
(c) A finger bone.
(d) A stone tool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Roughly when were the Vedas composed?

2. How old were the boys found at Sunghir?

3. As human brains grew, what shrunk?

4. What example does the author not give when talking about how adults are persuaded by stories?

5. Other than humans, what type of animal that can cooperate in large numbers?

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