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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Iza tell Creb about Ayla?
(a) Ayla is burying the baby.
(b) Ayla is weak from the birth and not expected to live.
(c) Ayla is lost.
(d) Ayla is hiding.

2. What is wrong with the drink Ayla makes?
(a) It is too weak.
(b) It is too strong.
(c) It is the wrong color.
(d) It is not enough for the ten mog-urs.

3. Who from Brun's clan is chosen for the Cave Bear Ceremony?
(a) Droog
(b) Broud
(c) Goov
(d) Vorn

4. What game do Ayla and Durc play together?
(a) A game of stacking rocks
(b) A game of making sounds
(c) A game of throwing spears
(d) A game of pretending they are mates

5. As the men question Ayla, what does Broud realize with angry embarrassment?
(a) That she witnessed him pushing Zoug and his punishment
(b) That she will be dead soon and he will miss her
(c) That she is a better hunter than him
(d) That if she had not watched Zoug that day, Brac would be dead

6. Who dies in the earthquake?
(a) Creb
(b) Uba
(c) Brun
(d) Durc

7. Who does Ayla say she missed while she was gone to break the tension?
(a) Broud
(b) Creb
(c) Brac
(d) Zoug

8. What is Ayla's punishment for her defiance?
(a) She is not allowed to go to the Clan Gathering.
(b) The woman's curse - isolation to Creb's hearth for one moon
(c) She is never allowed to hunt again.
(d) The full death curse for one moon

9. What does Creb realize when watching Durc, who is almost walking now?
(a) He realizes that Durc will not be able to hunt.
(b) He realizes that Durc is a mixture of the clan's and Others' spirits.
(c) He realizes that Durc is the future of the clan.
(d) He realizes that Durc's deformity will make him retarded.

10. Who in the clan was also born deformed and allowed to live?
(a) Brun
(b) Creb
(c) Dorv
(d) Zoug

11. Why does Uba have to spend a few days alone?
(a) She has a temporary death curse for touching Ayla's sling.
(b) She has become a woman.
(c) She must pass the solitude test to become medicine woman.
(d) She has a contagious illness.

12. Who does Broud make his second-in-command?
(a) Vorn
(b) Borg
(c) Creg
(d) Goov

13. What does Iza do with Ayla's belongings?
(a) She burns them.
(b) She hides them.
(c) She sets them aside for Ayla to take with her to the spirit world.
(d) She leaves them as is, in anticipation for Ayla's return.

14. What kind of medicine does Iza suggest to Ayla?
(a) An herb to make her lose the baby
(b) An herb to help Ayla keep the baby
(c) An herb to strengthen her bones during pregnancy
(d) An herb to make her more attractive to gain a mate

15. What is the first kill Ayla brings back to the cave?
(a) Hyena
(b) Lynx
(c) Rabbits
(d) Deer

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Creb do when he sees Ayla?

2. What does Uba deliver?

3. What does Creb name the baby?

4. What concerns Brun at the Clan Gathering?

5. What does Ayla decide?

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