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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Iza make for Ayla, meaning that Ayla will become one of the clan?
(a) An amulet
(b) A medicine bag
(c) A lynx coat
(d) Shoes

2. What does Iza think is a usually a problem for women delivering babies?
(a) The babies' heads are too large.
(b) Not enough females are born.
(c) Not enough males are born.
(d) The babies are born too soon.

3. How does Ayla act towards Broud after the beating?
(a) She treats him with earned respect.
(b) She laughs at him.
(c) She scurries in fear to meet his every need.
(d) She begins a campaign of petty insolence.

4. What skill does Ayla have already that helps her learn to track animals?
(a) She knows how to make tools from flint.
(b) She walks quietly and stealthily to avoid attracting attention.
(c) She observes small details that differentiate plants for medicinal use.
(d) She is demure and docile towards the men.

5. Where does Ayla begin hiding her sling as she learns to hunt?
(a) In the hazelnut bushes in front of her cave
(b) In her collecting basket
(c) In her shoes
(d) In the folds of her wrap

6. What ceremony does Brun hope to include in the cave ceremony celebration?
(a) The ceremony to make Ayla one of the clan
(b) The ceremony to make Grod new Mog-ur
(c) The ceremony to mate Iza and Creb
(d) Broud's manhood ceremony

7. What does Ayla do that makes Creb bond with her?
(a) She tries to tell him her name.
(b) She tugs his beard.
(c) She touches his scarred face without inhibition.
(d) She gives him flowers.

8. What are the men doing when Ayla sees them in the clearing?
(a) Returning from a hunt
(b) Practicing with their weapons
(c) Making tools
(d) Having a sacred ceremony

9. Who is the leader of the Clan?
(a) The Mog-ur
(b) Creb
(c) Brun
(d) Broud

10. What is Broud's totem?
(a) Wooly Rhinoceros
(b) Wooly Mammoth
(c) Cave Lion
(d) Cave Bear

11. What is the lioness stalking when the girl gets too close?
(a) Aurochs
(b) Bison
(c) Humans
(d) Giant deer

12. What does Ayla do that reveals her secret skill?
(a) She kills the hyena.
(b) She jumps into the stream and saves him from drowning.
(c) She tracks Brac through the woods and finds him.
(d) She kills a mammoth.

13. How does Ayla survive the attack after the sling misses it's mark?
(a) She flings a second stone with the sling.
(b) She stabs the animal with a spear.
(c) She runs away and climbs a tree.
(d) She beats the animal with a stout deadwood branch.

14. What does Ayla try to kill with the sling and miss?
(a) A wolverine
(b) A lynx
(c) A hyena
(d) A wolf

15. Why does Ayla go out alone?
(a) To get away from the clan
(b) To collect cherry bark for Iza
(c) To spy on the men
(d) To forage for food

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Broud have to do to prove he is now a man?

2. What does Ayla do wrong when Broud hits her?

3. What does Ayla want while the clan continues traveling?

4. What does Broud offer to make Vorn?

5. What most influences the leader to let Iza help the girl?

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