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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who explored Altamira Cave?
(a) Two college students.
(b) Maurice McDonald.
(c) A farmer who had gotten lost.
(d) Marcelino and his daughter Maria.

2. Roughly how long would it take someone to carve a single bead out of ivory?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 2 days.
(d) A month.

3. When the author imagines peace instead of a battle, what gifts were exchanged?
(a) Fox-teeth hats.
(b) Ivory beads.
(c) Fur slippers.
(d) Stone tools.

4. What is the name of the famous Stone Age statue of a woman?
(a) Saturn of Munich.
(b) Neptune of Dortmund.
(c) Venus of Willendorf.
(d) Mercury of Wollstonecraft

5. Where did Stone Age bands tend to llive?
(a) By the river, where there would often be fish.
(b) Next to the mountain, where they could shelter in caves.
(c) Wherever there was food at that time of year.
(d) Near the forest, where they could find fuel for fire.

6. How healthy were gatherers' diets?
(a) Varied, but without the necessary vitamins.
(b) Not enough food.
(c) Healthy, but without any variety.
(d) Varied and nutritious.

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

8. How did the Ohalo site survive to be studied?
(a) It was incredibly well made.
(b) It was built in a cave.
(c) It was in a desert where it never rained.
(d) It was preserved by hardened mud.

9. What did archaeologists find at Le Rozel on the Atlantic coast of France?
(a) A painting of a cat.
(b) A warship.
(c) A cluster of huts.
(d) More than 250 footprints.

10. What was a standard Stone Age family unit?
(a) It is unknown.
(b) Grandparents, parents, and children.
(c) Whoever wanted to stay in the hut.
(d) A woman and her children.

11. What would an animist do if they thought they had angered a tree?
(a) They would threaten the tree with fire.
(b) They would cut down the tree.
(c) They would run away from the tree.
(d) They would ask the tree for forgiveness.

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

13. What part of the body did Stone Age people paint on cave walls?
(a) Ears.
(b) Handprints.
(c) Footprints.
(d) Faces.

14. When was Lascaux Cave discovered?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1708.
(d) 1940.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author imagines the rat scientists of the future, where do they find the surviving human art?

2. Where do modern hunter-gatherers mostly live?

3. Where was NASA's mission control on Earth?

4. What weapons were used in the imagined battle between Sapiens and Neanderthals?

5. What did Stone Age people use to eat?

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