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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. How long does the process of evolution take?
(a) Thousands of years.
(b) Billions of years.
(c) 500 years.
(d) A few centuries.
2. What were the first tools made of?
(a) Tin.
(b) Seashells.
(c) Human teeth.
(d) Sticks and stones.
3. When was the catastrophe that killed the Floresians, Neanderthals, and Denisovans?
(a) 100,000 years ago.
(b) 10,000 years ago.
(c) 5,000 years ago.
(d) 50,000 years ago.
4. Which type of human was most well adapted to the cold?
(a) Floresians.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) Sapiens.
(d) Denisovans.
5. Who, according to the author, are even more powerful storytellers than lawyers?
(a) Bankers and politicians.
(b) Farmers and cheesemakers.
(c) Generals and managers.
(d) Poets and artists.
Short Answer Questions
1. What example does the author not give when talking about how adults are persuaded by stories?
2. About how many people work for McDonald's?
3. How would ancient humans have first gotten meat to eat?
4. What could ancient Sapiens use to frighten away large animals?
5. Ants also cooperate in large numbers, but how are they different from humans?
Short Essay Questions
1. What groups do ants organize themselves into?
2. What stories were told by the people of Flores Island?
3. What is one theory of how Sapiens learned to tell stories?
4. When Sapiens were still living only in Africa, how did they compare to modern Sapiens?
5. What ability allowed Sapiens to cooperate?
6. What story allows humans to easily trade for things they need, even with strangers?
7. How do you create fire using flint?
8. How do most people get bananas?
9. What is the story of the very special oil?
10. Why would ancient humans not be the first to eat meat from a slain giraffe?
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