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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 Iza stop working while the women are winnowing grain?
(a) She is dying.
(b) She must tend to a sick child.
(c) She goes into labor.
(d) Creb wants her to save her energy for a ceremony.

2. What does Iza give Ayla before the mammoth hunt?
(a) A special carrying basket
(b) An amulet
(c) Her own otter-skin medicine bag
(d) A new wrap

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

4. What happens while the women are preparing the mammoth for the journey home?
(a) Brac gets too close to the herd and is trampled by mammoth.
(b) Brac wanders off and gets lost.
(c) A hyena grabs Brac and carries him off.
(d) Brac falls into the rushing stream and nearly drowns.

5. Where does the clan allow gestures of affection?
(a) Nowhere
(b) In the boundaries of the fire only
(c) Anywhere
(d) Only outside the cave

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What men stay behind to protect the cave?

3. What does Ayla do first when she sees Brun?

4. Why does Oga stop being friends with Ayla?

5. What does Ayla do when Creb reprimands her that worries him?

(see the answer key)

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