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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when the king's daughter said that she wanted to become the ruler?
(a) They found out that she was not the king's daughter.
(b) They crowned her as their first queen.
(c) They laughed and said only boys could be kings.
(d) They put the oil on her head, but it did not work.

2. Other than humans, what type of animal that can cooperate in large numbers?
(a) Social insects.
(b) Schools of sharks.
(c) Pack wolves.
(d) Mice.

3. What "only gets hungrier" the more it eats (6)?
(a) A zebra.
(b) A Sapien.
(c) A fire.
(d) A lion.

4. Where do cleaner fish get their food?
(a) From their prey, the tuna.
(b) From the grubs in tree trunks.
(c) From discarded crab shells.
(d) From between shark teeth.

5. Where is Flores Island?
(a) Madagascar.
(b) Indonesia.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how much money does McDonald's earn every year?

2. What is an important thing to say in scientific studies?

3. How can it be know that some people have Neanderthal ancestors?

4. What superpower do humans have?

5. Which of these is a "memory from millions of years ago" (4)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did human bodies change when they started to cook their food?

2. Other than Sapiens, what other types of animals can cooperate in large numbers?

3. How can a person find out if they have a Neanderthal ancestor?

4. How do most people get bananas?

5. What ability allowed Sapiens to cooperate?

6. When Sapiens were still living only in Africa, how did they compare to modern Sapiens?

7. Why would ancient humans not be the first to eat meat from a slain giraffe?

8. What gave Sapiens the power to overcome their competitors and deal with much stronger animals?

9. What is the story of the very special oil?

10. What stories were told by the people of Flores Island?

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