Chapter 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?