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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. Why did Ayla hesitate at the invoking of the Clan spirits?
(a) She was no longer a member of the Clan.
(b) She wasn't sure they would approve.
(c) She wasn't a Mog-ur.
(d) She didn't know how to call upon them.

2. What did Jondalar give Noria?
(a) His donii.
(b) A fur he had prepared for her.
(c) His heart.
(d) His tunic.

3. What did the first stones from Ayla's sling show the hyenas?
(a) Ayla's range.
(b) That Ayla wasn't to be trifled with.
(c) That the reindeer was not an easy target.
(d) All of these.

4. What did Jondalar fear while traveling by boat?
(a) A leak.
(b) A collision.
(c) All of these.
(d) A capsizing.

5. What was interesting about the person with dignified bearing?
(a) The person was female and a healer.
(b) The person was androgynous.
(c) The person was male, and a healer.
(d) The person looked like a female but was a male.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Jondalar spend the night with?

2. What had happened between Thonolan and Jetamio?

3. What did the hyena manage to make off with?

4. Why did Ayla continue making mashes for the horse even when she no longer needed them?

5. In what direction was the rhino nearly blind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Broud done, and how was it a sign of an immature leader?

2. Why did Ayla take in the baby horse?

3. What idea struck Ayla?

4. What advantages did Ayla have that other clan women did not?

5. Why were the gifts from others not really anonymous?

6. Why was there always someone present when a young woman lost her virginity, or rather, had her First Rites?

7. What events led to Ayla making fire with flint and iron pyrite?

8. Why did Jondalar take special attention in making sure young women were Pleasured in their First Rites?

9. What kind of relationship did Jondalar and Jetamio start out with? What did it deepen into and how?

10. What had made Ayla finally glad of the presence of the hyenas?

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