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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ayla do first when she sees Brun?
(a) She begs him to let her child live.
(b) She asks forgiveness for defying him.
(c) She tells him where the small cave is.
(d) She asks to be cursed as well if he curses the baby.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Creb reprimand Ayla?

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

3. How does Broud accept the baby?

4. Why does Oga stop being friends with Ayla?

5. What does Ayla decide to do with her sling while on the mammoth hunt trip?

(see the answer key)

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