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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Creb reprimand Ayla?
(a) Ayla is being discourteous by looking at other people's conversations.
(b) Ayla is being lazy.
(c) Ayla is pestering Iza too much.
(d) Ayla is drawing counting marks in the sand.

2. What does Ayla do when Creb reprimands her that worries him?
(a) She hugs him.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She lashes out in anger.
(d) She cries tears.

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

4. Why does Creb want Brun to reconsider his decision?
(a) Creb argues that Ayla will take pieces of Brac's and Ona's spirit with her if she dies.
(b) Creb is deformed and Ayla's role model.
(c) Creb worries that cursing Ayla will anger the spirits.
(d) Creb worries that they will be without a medicine woman soon if Ayla dies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Iza give Ayla before the mammoth hunt?

2. Why does Brun hesitate to give Ayla the death curse right away?

3. Why does Brun decide to hunt mammoth, even though it is a risky undertaking?

4. Why does Oga stop being friends with Ayla?

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

(see the answer key)

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