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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 many kinds of fish were found in the garbage dump at Ohalo?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 15.
(d) None.

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

3. 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.

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

5. How many huts were found at Ohalo?
(a) 25.
(b) 40.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do modern hunter-gatherers mostly live?

2. Who left behind evidence at Le Rozel?

3. What would an animist do if they thought they had angered a tree?

4. What famous painting was found in Lascaux Cave in France?

5. What did Stone Age people likely use to paint their handprints?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why have no Stone Age paintings of people or families been found?

3. What is the Venus of Willendorf, and what can be learned from it?

4. 20,000 years ago, what would a gatherer do in an average day?

5. How did gatherers' diets compare to those of modern factory workers?

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

7. Why were gatherers mostly safe from disease?

8. Why is it a common mistake to think that Stone Age people lived in caves?

9. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

10. What is one theory about the Lascaux Cave painting of the human and the bison?

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