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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Jondalar notice Ayla handle the pouch around her neck?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) With reverence.
(c) As he would hold a donii.
(d) Both of these.

2. What was the first animal Baby killed?
(a) A hare.
(b) A ptarmigan.
(c) A deer.
(d) A grouse.

3. Who had come up the mountain to fetch Thonolan?
(a) Tholie.
(b) Jetamio.
(c) Serenio.
(d) Shamud.

4. What was the Pleasure that Ayla got from Broud?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Durc.
(d) Becoming a woman.

5. Who was the last person that had given Jondalar the same satisfaction?
(a) Zolena.
(b) None of these.
(c) Noria.
(d) Serenio.

6. What did Ayla want to know from her cave lion totem?
(a) Why she had been cast out of the Clan.
(b) Why the cub was sent to her.
(c) If she would ever find the Others.
(d) Why she had been given the animals as companions.

7. At what point in the year did Baby's absences become longer?
(a) Towards the end of summer.
(b) During summer.
(c) In spring.
(d) At the start of winter.

8. What hadn't Ayla done?
(a) Let the Clan down.
(b) None of these.
(c) Proven Droog to be an inept tool maker.
(d) Let herself down.

9. What was the extent of the cub's injuries?
(a) Broken rib.
(b) Head wound.
(c) Both of these.
(d) None of these.

10. Why had Whinney kicked Baby?
(a) She had gone into heat.
(b) Baby bit her.
(c) All of these.
(d) Baby played too rough with her.

11. What did Ayla use that wasn't a part of Jondalar's kit?
(a) All of these.
(b) A hammer stone.
(c) An antler chisel.
(d) A foot bone of a mammoth.

12. How did Ayla kill the bison?
(a) By shooting it in the eye with her spear thrower.
(b) None of these.
(c) By stabbing it with a Clan spear.
(d) By stabbing it with a spear Jondalar had made for her.

13. What did Jondalar think of naming the colt?
(a) Racer.
(b) Midnight.
(c) None of these.
(d) Wind runner.

14. What wasn't Jondalar looking forward to telling Darvo?
(a) That his mother wouldn't mate him.
(b) All of these.
(c) That he wouldn't mate his mother.
(d) That he was leaving.

15. What was the donii that Jondalar was making for Ayla made out of?
(a) Marble.
(b) Wood.
(c) Mammoth ivory.
(d) Soapstone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ayla's first effort to communicate, and what was the first thing she managed to communicate?

2. Why was Zolena no more?

3. What surprised Jondalar regarding flatheads?

4. What did Ayla learn in Chapter 24 about the Others?

5. Who else had Jondalar told about Zolena?

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