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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the elephant that killed a Nayaka called?
(a) The elephant who always walks alone.
(b) The elephant who bellows loudly.
(c) The elephant who hunts in the dark.
(d) The elephant who lives by the river.

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

3. What is painted in Lascaux Cave?
(a) A giant.
(b) A bird-headed man and a bison.
(c) A wild horse.
(d) A series of hands.

4. How do gibbons usually live?
(a) In large noisy communities.
(b) Mothers live with their children until the young have grown enough to leave.
(c) By themselves, rarely seeing another gibbon.
(d) In pairs, often staying together for many years and taking care of their children.

5. How long is a modern factory worker at their job for?
(a) 6 hours.
(b) 16 hours.
(c) 12 hours.
(d) 10 hours.

6. What was the name of the astronaut who waited on the mother ship?
(a) Michael Collins.
(b) Simon Chapman.
(c) Thomas Biggio.
(d) Maurice Richard.

7. What country is Sunghir in?
(a) Uzbekistan.
(b) Russia.
(c) India.
(d) Iran.

8. What is one piece of evidence showing cooperation between distant people?
(a) Seashells far from the sea.
(b) Friendship bracelets.
(c) Signs of athletic competition.
(d) Coins found far from where they were made.

9. Where is Ohalo?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Israel.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Syria.

10. Roughly when were the Vedas composed?
(a) 2,500 years ago.
(b) 1,500 years ago.
(c) 3,000 years ago.
(d) 2,000 years ago.

11. What happened to the Ohalo huts?
(a) They were destroyed with stone tools.
(b) Lava destroyed them.
(c) They were swept away in a flood.
(d) They burned down.

12. What have archaeologists found around the remains of ancient campfires?
(a) Pieces of chairs.
(b) Stone chippings.
(c) Rotted paper.
(d) Signs of domesticated animals.

13. What weapons were used in the imagined battle between Sapiens and Neanderthals?
(a) Bows and arrows.
(b) Wooden clubs and stone-tipped spears.
(c) Iron spears.
(d) Slings and stones.

14. According to animists, why can most people not talk to trees?
(a) People have forgotten the language of trees.
(b) Trees have stopped talking to people.
(c) Trees only speak to good people.
(d) The world is too noisy now.

15. Who was the Neanderthal who survived the imagined battled?
(a) An elderly man.
(b) A wounded warrior.
(c) A 3-year-old boy.
(d) A pregnant woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Nayaka people live?

2. What did people mostly use to make things during the Stone Age?

3. How old is the Stone Age evidence at Le Rozel?

4. What did archaeologists find at Le Rozel on the Atlantic coast of France?

5. Why do people not know about specific historical events from the Stone Age?

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