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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do historians call the time when the French people stopped believing in kings?
(a) The End of Kings.
(b) The French Spring.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The Great Reorganization.

2. About how tall did adult Floresians evolve to be?
(a) 3 feet.
(b) 4 and a half feet.
(c) 5 feet.
(d) 2 feet.

3. What was the catastrophe that killed the other types of human?
(a) The spread of Sapiens.
(b) A terrible disease.
(c) An asteroid from space.
(d) A volcanic erruption.

4. What did people do with god's gift?
(a) They buried it.
(b) They ate it.
(c) They put it on the king's head.
(d) They gave it to the poor.

5. What are archaeologists?
(a) An ancient kind of human.
(b) Scientists who dig up clues to the past.
(c) People who study spiders.
(d) Powerful sky wizards.

6. How did Sapiens develop this ability?
(a) They practised lying to their parents.
(b) They learned from chimpanzees.
(c) It is uncertain.
(d) They learned from Neanderthals.

7. Who does the author not say helped Armstrong get to space?
(a) Mathematicians.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Athletes.
(d) Miners.

8. When was the catastrophe that killed the Floresians, Neanderthals, and Denisovans?
(a) 100,000 years ago.
(b) 5,000 years ago.
(c) 50,000 years ago.
(d) 10,000 years ago.

9. How long does the process of evolution take?
(a) Thousands of years.
(b) 500 years.
(c) Billions of years.
(d) A few centuries.

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

11. What happened when the king's daughter said that she wanted to become the ruler?
(a) They put the oil on her head, but it did not work.
(b) They laughed and said only boys could be kings.
(c) They found out that she was not the king's daughter.
(d) They crowned her as their first queen.

12. What kind of bears live in Romania?
(a) Brown bears.
(b) Sun bears.
(c) Panda bears.
(d) Polar bears.

13. What story does the author use as an example?
(a) The First Human.
(b) The Gorilla in the Sky.
(c) The Great Lion Spirit.
(d) The Reason for Water.

14. Other than humans, what type of animal that can cooperate in large numbers?
(a) Schools of sharks.
(b) Pack wolves.
(c) Mice.
(d) Social insects.

15. What does Tina say when her dad asks who got mud on the floor?
(a) I'll clean it up right away.
(b) It wasn't me. It was the Tina Corporation.
(c) An alien did it.
(d) It was my brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country's kings does the author talk about?

2. What athletes does the author mention people watching on TV?

3. What did the lawyer need to do before telling the story of the McDonald's Corporation?

4. What story allows humans to cooperate on large projects and trade with strangers?

5. Ants also cooperate in large numbers, but how are they different from humans?

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