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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who discovered Lascaux Cave?
(a) A visiting doctor.
(b) An archaeologist and her son.
(c) A Moroccan explorer.
(d) Four French teenagers.

2. What does the Latin word "anima" mean?
(a) Move.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Breathe.
(d) Life.

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

4. What would gatherers do if disease destroyed the local rabbit population?
(a) Face starvation.
(b) Wait for the rabbits to return.
(c) Research a cure for the disease.
(d) Look for a different food source like berries or fish.

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

6. What is the word for someone who believes that animals can talk?
(a) Spiritualist.
(b) Animist.
(c) Theist.
(d) Deist.

7. Who left behind evidence at Le Rozel?
(a) Neanderthals.
(b) Denisovans.
(c) Sapiens.
(d) French kings.

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

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

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

11. What did archaeologists not find at Ohalo?
(a) A set of arrows.
(b) Bones.
(c) Stone tools.
(d) Leftover food.

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

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

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

15. How did Stone Age people get paint?
(a) They crushed colorful stones and mixed them with water.
(b) They traded for it with Neanderthals.
(c) They soaked flowers in water.
(d) They mashed up a certain kind of beetle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in particular faced danger during the Stone Age?

2. What did the spirits' voices whisper to the spirit doctor?

3. How did the Ohalo site survive to be studied?

4. Where do the Nayaka people live?

5. According to animists, why can most people not talk to trees?

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