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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did people mostly use to make things during the Stone Age?
(a) Stone.
(b) Wood and stone.
(c) Wood, straw, and animal hide.
(d) Furs and tin.

2. What did people in a band likely do together?
(a) Cooked and ate.
(b) Almost everything.
(c) Searched for food.
(d) Told stories.

3. How old is the painting in Lascaux Cave?
(a) 17,000 years old.
(b) 7,000 years old.
(c) 10,000 years old.
(d) 32,000 years old.

4. Who might a gatherer blame if somebody got sick?
(a) Their enemy.
(b) The doctor.
(c) A ghost.
(d) A neighbor.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What did the spirits' voices whisper to the spirit doctor?
(a) Doom.
(b) Flee.
(c) War.
(d) Peace.

11. How much did a mammoth weigh?
(a) Around as much as a large car.
(b) About as much as a school bus.
(c) The same as a horse.
(d) Roughly the same as a cruise ship.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do modern hunter-gatherers mostly live?

2. Roughly how long would it take someone to carve a single bead out of ivory?

3. How long was a good gatherer's workday?

4. What did gatherers have expertise in?

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

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