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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. At what point do older women choose younger men?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) To help a younger man understand what is happening with his body.
(c) Both of these.
(d) To teach them to use their woman-maker properly.

2. Who had been killed in an earthquake?
(a) Creb.
(b) Ayla's mother.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

3. What made Whinney nervous?
(a) The smell of blood within the cave.
(b) Ayla's attention elsewhere.
(c) None of these.
(d) The smell of the strange man in the cave.

4. What was Ayla's first effort to communicate, and what was the first thing she managed to communicate?
(a) Where he was from.
(b) Her name.
(c) Where she had come from.
(d) Her desire to know his name.

5. What animal does the chamois resemble?
(a) The big horned sheep.
(b) The ibex.
(c) The mountain goat.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the sounds Ayla used made for?

2. What rule must never be forgotten?

3. What offer does Ayla make regarding the colt?

4. When there was less weight the boat was ______ to handle.

5. What, more than ever, made Jondalar suspect Ayla was a donii?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why wouldn't Jondalar stop loving Ayla?

2. What does Ayla explain about the cave lion totem?

3. What did Jondalar admire about Ayla, and what had it taken to show him?

4. How did Dolando view flatheads and why did this shock Jondalar?

5. What was Jondalar's outburst regarding, and what was the reason for it?

6. What did Jondalar consider about Ayla, and what brought about this decision?

7. Why was Marthona so upset about Jondalar's decision to leave with Thonolan?

8. What major difference did Ayla note in Jondalar's attitude towards the clan in Chapter 26?

9. What puzzled Jondalar regarding Ayla?

10. What thought pattern lead to Ayla's riding of the huge cave lion?

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