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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How tall is the woman leading the women?
(a) Four and a half feet
(b) Five and a half feet
(c) Three and a half feet
(d) Six and a half feet

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

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

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

5. What happens to the shelter?
(a) The earth splits open and swallows it.
(b) It is struck by lightning.
(c) It washes away in a flood.
(d) The earthquake causes a fire that burns it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Iza take Ayla to the other women?

2. What does Ayla try to kill with the sling and miss?

3. Why does Iza stop working while the women are winnowing grain?

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

5. What happens to convince the clan to start allowing Ayla to help Iza practice medicine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ayla ask to be cursed if Brun refuses to accept the baby?

2. Why does Brun send Ayla to find Creb when he falls behind on the journey home?

3. What does Ayla think about what Iza told her before she died?

4. How do the clan members communicate?

5. What makes the girl blindly rush straight toward the herd of wild cows?

6. What does Oda's story make Ayla realize?

7. What do the clan members believe about how babies are conceived?

8. Why does Creb take Durc to the other women for nursing?

9. How does Ayla feel when she makes her first kill?

10. What does Broud envision about the combined cave ceremony and his manhood ceremony?

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