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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Stone Age bands tend to llive?

3. What did Armstrong say when he stepped on the moon?

4. What did the spirits' voices whisper to the spirit doctor?

5. How healthy were gatherers' diets?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are orangutan families like?

3. What was "home" for Stone Age hunter-gatherers?

4. What was the man at Sunghir buried with?

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

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

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

8. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Stone Age is given that name because of the objects that have survived from that period. What will the current period be called by future archaeologists?

Essay Topic 2

What were the pros and cons of life in the Stone Age?

Essay Topic 3

What is the main lesson the book's author wants to teach its readers?

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