VII BIG FOOT’S NEW WEAPON 1 Did fire enable the savage tribes to preserve their meat? 2 Did fire bring any greater degree of security to the tribes? How? 3 Do the animals you know fear fire? 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? VIII THE FIRST PLANTING 1 How did man probably discover the use of flint? 2 How can you build a fire without matches and without flint? 3 In what other ways may flint be used? 4 What is cannibalism? 5 How did the people first discover agriculture? 6 In what kind of a climate would sowing and reaping be necessary? 7 Name several ways by which we might discover that seeds sprout, and bear. 8 How would primitive man probably explain a garden? 9 What would make him eager to possess a garden? 10 Why do people progress more in a temperate climate than in a tropical region? Explain. 11 Why did the Cave People believe in miracles? 12 What is a miracle? 13 Did savage and barbarous men like to work? 14 What makes people remember things? 15 When do we learn by doing things? 16 What things are we most likely to forget? IX THE FIRST POT 1 What did the very first men do when they wanted a drink of water? 2 How did they first carry water into their caves? 3 Of what did they weave baskets? 4 Of what are our dishes made to-day? 5 How did prehistoric folks learn to make pots? 6 Which did they need to learn first, pot-making or fire-building? 7 How did men probably learn to cook things to eat? 8 How did they undoubtedly learn to bake clay pots? 9 Why did savage tribes decorate themselves? 10 Can you tell how to make a hollow clay pot without a form to make it over? X THE ARROW THROWERS 1 With what did the early men tip their arrows? 2 Where did they get strings for their bows? 3 And of what were bows made? 4 Can you suggest a way by which they chanced to invent the bow and arrow? 5 What advantage did a bow and arrow possess over a bone javelin? 6 Will an arrow travel farther? 7 Name half a dozen early weapons.