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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ayla come out of her depression?
(a) She starts hunting and collecting medicinal plants again.
(b) She starts planning for the Clan Gathering.
(c) She knows that Broud can do nothing else to her.
(d) She realizes she is going to have a baby.

2. What happens to convince the clan to start allowing Ayla to help Iza practice medicine?
(a) She treats Zoug for a vicious beating from Broud.
(b) She helps deliver Ovra's premature baby.
(c) She treats Creb for a bad burn.
(d) She helps Iza remove Creb's rotten tooth.

3. What most influences the leader to let Iza help the girl?
(a) Iza's request to help the girl
(b) His opinion that the girl will probably die anyway
(c) Fear of upsetting his sibling
(d) Fear of angering the spirits and ruining the cave ceremony

4. What does Creb tell Ayla near the beginning of Chapter 24?
(a) That she must prepare herself, which means the other mog-urs have accepted her
(b) That the man she saved is marked by Ursus now
(c) That she is accepted by Zoug's kin and has found a mate
(d) That she is the medicine woman of the highest status

5. What does Broud have to do to prove he is now a man?
(a) Make his first kill
(b) Withstand a manhood ritual
(c) Spend a week alone away from the clan
(d) Make a spear

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Iza believe about Ayla's future?

2. Why does Creb want Brun to reconsider his decision?

3. What does Iza use for a medicine bag?

4. What is the first kill Ayla brings back to the cave?

5. Why is Iza the leader of the women?

(see the answer key)

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