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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story allows humans to cooperate on large projects and trade with strangers?
(a) The story of countries.
(b) The story of money.
(c) The story of banks.
(d) The story of roads.

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

3. 100,000 years ago, how many Sapiens lived in Africa?
(a) More than 250,000.
(b) Fewer than 100,000.
(c) 125,000.
(d) 150,000.

4. What is the cell's "instruction book" (20)?
(a) Jeans.
(b) Tablet.
(c) TNT.
(d) DNA.

5. Three hundred years ago, what work did most people do?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Delivery.
(c) Construction.
(d) Farming.

6. What does the name Ebu Gogo mean?
(a) Water Under Sky.
(b) Giant Hunter.
(c) Grandma Eats All.
(d) Water Cracks Rock.

7. Ants also cooperate in large numbers, but how are they different from humans?
(a) They never change the way they cooperate.
(b) Their stories make them greedy.
(c) They believe less useful stories.
(d) They cannot all tell stories.

8. How would ancient humans have first gotten meat to eat?
(a) They built complicated traps that their prey fell into.
(b) They hunted from the backs of horses.
(c) They set fire to bushes and ate any animals killed by the fire.
(d) They waited until the lions and hyenas were done and ate the scraps.

9. What superpower do humans have?
(a) Telling imaginary stories.
(b) Long distance running.
(c) Developing complex plans.
(d) Mimicking older humans.

10. What did humans need before they cooked food?
(a) Patience.
(b) Plates.
(c) Salt and sugar.
(d) Sharp cutlery.

11. 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 asked for there to be a vote.
(c) They became angry and killed the king.
(d) They thought it would be good to still have a king anyways.

12. In what year did Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1979.

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

14. What sport does the author use as an example of strangers sharing the same beliefs about rules?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Baseball.

15. About how many people work for McDonald's?
(a) 520,000.
(b) 2,000,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 120,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could ancient Sapiens use to frighten away large animals?

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

3. What were the first tools made of?

4. Which of the following is not a group of harvester ants?

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

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