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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does Ayla get when thinking about the attack?
(a) She decides that she cannot hunt meat eaters after all.
(b) She decides to learn to use the bola instead.
(c) She decides to try to learn to fling two stones from the sling in quick succession.
(d) She decides that she is ready for larger game.

2. What drives her to leave?
(a) Her sunburn
(b) Her wound
(c) Thirst
(d) Hunger

3. How many days transpire between a clan child's birth and naming day?
(a) Ten
(b) Twenty
(c) Seven
(d) Three

4. How do the clan members feel about Broud's abuse toward Ayla?
(a) Few approve of the lengths to which Broud uses to keep her in line
(b) Most believe it is a test from Ayla's totem.
(c) Most believe the strange girl deserve the harsh treatment because of her differences.
(d) Few believe that Broud goes far enough in her punishment of her insolence.

5. How does Iza transport the unconscious girl?
(a) On a stretcher
(b) On her back
(c) In a leather carrying cloak on her hip
(d) The men carry her

6. What does Brun do when Broud finally decides to rebuke Ayla for her insolence?
(a) Brun congratulates Broud for controlling his anger.
(b) Brun does nothing.
(c) Brun disowns Broud.
(d) Brun beats Broud.

7. Why does Iza decide to teach Ayla medicine?
(a) She wants revenge on her cruel former mate.
(b) She fears that her medicine line will die with her.
(c) She fears that she will not be able to take care of Creb much longer.
(d) She believes that Ayla will be too ugly to find a mate, so she needs status in her own right.

8. Why does another lion chase the girl?
(a) The girl ventures too close to the newborn lion cubs.
(b) The lion's kill is threatened.
(c) The mother lion wants weak prey for her cubs to learn to kill.
(d) The small girl is a perfect meal for the lions.

9. Who is destined to be Broud's mate?
(a) Uka
(b) Ovra
(c) Oga
(d) Ayla

10. What does Creb want to teach Ayla?
(a) How to be a Mog-ur
(b) How to make his arthritis medicine
(c) How to hunt
(d) How to communicate properly with signals

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

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

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

14. What does Ayla find when she is looking for a place to practice her sling skills?
(a) An abandoned baby
(b) A small cave
(c) Men of the Others
(d) A large supply of fresh flint

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sends Ayla to get wood with the other children?

2. What does Iza think is a usually a problem for women delivering babies?

3. Where does the clan allow gestures of affection?

4. How does Ayla believe she has made the right decision about learning to hunt?

5. What had Brun planned to do to with Iza before she rescued Ayla?

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