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Chapter 1: The Emergence of Human Societies, to 3000 B.C.E.
Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Which of the following do scholars’ study to learn about early hominins?
A) monuments
B) fossils
C) writing tablets
D) farm tools
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 Our Earliest Ancestors
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
2) Scholars believe that humans are descended from hominins who originated in .
A) Australia
B) Africa
C) Asia
D) Europe
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 Our Earliest Ancestors
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
3) The Paleolithic period began about years ago.
A) 2 million
B) 1 million
C) 500,000
D) 10,000
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1 Our Earliest Ancestors
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
4) Which of the following could hominins do during the Paleolithic period?
A) create iron tools and weapons
B) communicate with each other
C) breed animals
D) grow their own food
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1.1 Hominins and Cultural Adaptation
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
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5) Which of the following is an example of cultural adaptation?
A) walking on two feet rather than four
B) developing darker pigmentation in hot climates
C) assimilating new members into the community
D) avoiding plants that had proven lethal in the past
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1.1 Hominins and Cultural Adaptation
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
6) Early hominins were .
A) artisans
B) farmers
C) foragers
D) herders
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
7) Which of the following was part of the diet of foragers?
A) chocolate
B) bread
C) wild berries
D) cow’s milk
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
8) What was the general size of Paleolithic foraging communities?
A) 3 to 6
B) 30 to 60
C) 300 to 600
D) 3,000 to 6,000
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
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9) Which of the following distinguished early hominins from other mammals?
A) There was no division of labor between men and women.
B) Their offspring took longer to reach physical maturity.
C) They did not form lasting emotional bonds.
D) Their evolution was shaped exclusively by biology.
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
Difficulty Level: Moderate
10) Which of the following supports the argument that gender roles were not fixed in early
hominin communities?
A) Farmers hunted animals.
B) Hunters planted grains.
C) Women looked after children.
D) Men gathered plant food.
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
Difficulty Level: Moderate
11) About 1.8 million years ago, the first hominin migrants out of Africa headed to .
A) North America
B) Antarctica
C) Europe
D) Asia
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
12) Which of the following still exist today?
A) Homo sapiens
B) Neanderthals
C) Paleolithic peoples
D) Neolithic peoples
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
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13) The term Neanderthal refers to hominins who lived in .
A) South America
B) Southeast Asia
C) Europe
D) Australia
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
14) That Homo sapiens may have interacted with Neanderthals is supported by .
A) migration patterns
B) climate patterns
C) linguistic evidence
D) genetic evidence
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
Difficulty Level: Moderate
15) Which of the following could Homo sapiens do that early hominins could not?
A) hunt animals
B) communicate
C) make traps
D) use fire
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
16) Which of the following occurred during the Great Ice Age?
A) Humans spread throughout the globe.
B) Cities emerged in West Asia and Egypt.
C) Homo sapiens died out.
D) Agriculture was developed.
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
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Chapter 1: The Emergence of Human Societies, to 3000 B.C.E.
Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Which of the following do scholars’ study to learn about early hominins?
A) monuments
B) fossils
C) writing tablets
D) farm tools
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 Our Earliest Ancestors
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
2) Scholars believe that humans are descended from hominins who originated in .
A) Australia
B) Africa
C) Asia
D) Europe
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1 Our Earliest Ancestors
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
3) The Paleolithic period began about years ago.
A) 2 million
B) 1 million
C) 500,000
D) 10,000
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1 Our Earliest Ancestors
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
4) Which of the following could hominins do during the Paleolithic period?
A) create iron tools and weapons
B) communicate with each other
C) breed animals
D) grow their own food
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1.1 Hominins and Cultural Adaptation
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
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5) Which of the following is an example of cultural adaptation?
A) walking on two feet rather than four
B) developing darker pigmentation in hot climates
C) assimilating new members into the community
D) avoiding plants that had proven lethal in the past
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1.1 Hominins and Cultural Adaptation
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Analyze It
Difficulty Level: Difficult
6) Early hominins were .
A) artisans
B) farmers
C) foragers
D) herders
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
7) Which of the following was part of the diet of foragers?
A) chocolate
B) bread
C) wild berries
D) cow’s milk
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
8) What was the general size of Paleolithic foraging communities?
A) 3 to 6
B) 30 to 60
C) 300 to 600
D) 3,000 to 6,000
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
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9) Which of the following distinguished early hominins from other mammals?
A) There was no division of labor between men and women.
B) Their offspring took longer to reach physical maturity.
C) They did not form lasting emotional bonds.
D) Their evolution was shaped exclusively by biology.
Answer: B
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
Difficulty Level: Moderate
10) Which of the following supports the argument that gender roles were not fixed in early
hominin communities?
A) Farmers hunted animals.
B) Hunters planted grains.
C) Women looked after children.
D) Men gathered plant food.
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1.2 Foraging, Family, and Gender
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
Difficulty Level: Moderate
11) About 1.8 million years ago, the first hominin migrants out of Africa headed to .
A) North America
B) Antarctica
C) Europe
D) Asia
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
12) Which of the following still exist today?
A) Homo sapiens
B) Neanderthals
C) Paleolithic peoples
D) Neolithic peoples
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
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13) The term Neanderthal refers to hominins who lived in .
A) South America
B) Southeast Asia
C) Europe
D) Australia
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
14) That Homo sapiens may have interacted with Neanderthals is supported by .
A) migration patterns
B) climate patterns
C) linguistic evidence
D) genetic evidence
Answer: D
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Understand the Connections
Difficulty Level: Moderate
15) Which of the following could Homo sapiens do that early hominins could not?
A) hunt animals
B) communicate
C) make traps
D) use fire
Answer: C
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
16) Which of the following occurred during the Great Ice Age?
A) Humans spread throughout the globe.
B) Cities emerged in West Asia and Egypt.
C) Homo sapiens died out.
D) Agriculture was developed.
Answer: A
Topic: 1.1.3 Ice Age Migrations and Homo Sapiens
Learning Objective: 1.1 What do we know about prehistoric hominins, and how do we know it?
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
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