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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. Where do modern hunter-gatherers mostly live?
(a) European forests.
(b) Antarctica.
(c) Jungles and deserts.
(d) Caves.

2. What DNA instructions do human bodies have about sweet foods?
(a) Do not eat it.
(b) Enjoy in moderation.
(c) It is poisonous. Give it to your enemy.
(d) If you find it, eat as much possible.

3. How old is the gravesite at Sunghir?
(a) 104,000 years old.
(b) 10,000 years old.
(c) 34,000 years old.
(d) 5,000 years old.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the painting in Lascaux Cave?

2. Who would usually have been the most powerful leader of a band?

3. Who left behind evidence at Le Rozel?

4. What was found in the gravesite at Sunghir?

5. What does the author imagine a woman screaming when she saw "strange humans in the valley below" (138)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did archaeologists find in the Ohalo garbage dump?

2. What method did Stone Age people likely use to paint their handprints on a cave wall?

3. Were people of the Stone Age mostly hunters or gatherers?

4. What have archaeologists learned in studying the stone remains around ancient campfires?

5. 20,000 years ago, what would a gatherer do in an average day?

6. Why were accidents more dangerous during the Stone Age?

7. Why is the name "Stone Age" misleading?

8. Why do modern humans not know of any specific historical events during the Stone Age?

9. Why did the Nayaka refuse to help capture an elephant that had killed one of them?

10. What do animists believe?

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