7 Why was extreme individuality discouraged among the members of the tribes?
8 What happened to the youth who was determined to “go it alone” in those days?
9 Was the Cave Man the King of the Forests, Monarch of all he surveyed that we sometimes read about? Why not?
10 It is true that the Cave Man was weaker than most of his enemies and yet he has managed to outlive and outthrive them all. Give some reasons for this.
1 Did the Cave People know what an Echo is?
2 Could they explain their reflections in the rivers and lakes?
4 What was the origin of their belief in spirits?
5 What made them think the dead came back again; that they were not really dead, but lived in the spirit world?
7 How would a primitive man explain the rain? Or Fire? Floods? Give some suggestions of your own.
8 How did the Cave People probably first secure a fire?
9 How did they learn to keep a fire going?
10 What were one or two ways by which they first learned how to _make_ a fire?
1 What were some of the great early catastrophes?
2 What was probably the earliest sort of power used to propel a boat or raft?
3 What would we naturally expect the first boats or floats to be? Why?
4 Would it be possible to build a raft with nothing but stone tools?
5 How would you fasten such a raft together?
7 Can you propel a boat through the water with your hands?
8 How could a boy live in a great banyan tree for several days?
10 Could you make a hollow in a log without steel knives or saws or other modern tools? How?
11 Would such a hollow log serve as a crude boat?
1 Did fire enable the savage tribes to preserve their meat?
2 Did fire bring any greater degree of security to the tribes? How?
4 Have any other animals besides man learned to use a fire?
5 Does a cat or a dog ever make use of a fire? How?
6 Has any animal besides man ever learned to keep a fire going or to _build_ a fire?
7 Could a dog build a fire even if he _knew how_? Why not?
8 Has the thumb of man, which was probably once a toe like the great toe of your foot, been a help in his struggle for existence?
9 Without thumbs would we have ever learned more than to push things about?
10 Did fire equip man so that he would wander more freely over the earth’s surface? How?
1 How did man probably discover the use of flint?