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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Droog allow Ayla to watch him make the tools for the mammoth hunt?
(a) He wants to spite Broud, whose comments about old men have made Droog angry.
(b) He wants her to be available to get him water if he needs it.
(c) Creb suggests to him that she would make Droog a good mate.
(d) He believes her presence will bring him luck.

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

3. What does Creb find in the cave that seals the Clan's acceptance of the space as their new home?
(a) Roe deer bones
(b) The skull of the cave bear
(c) Hyena droppings
(d) A spring of clean water

4. What happens at the end of the curse?
(a) The men find Ayla's secret cave.
(b) Uba finds Ayla's secret cave.
(c) A blizzard keeps Ayla in the cave.
(d) Ayla kills a deer for food and its skin.

5. What happens while the clan is herding the fish into the net?
(a) Uba finds Ayla's sling.
(b) A sturgeon drags Brun out to sea.
(c) A predator snatches one of the toddlers from the beach.
(d) Ona loses her footing and gets swept out to sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Droog give Ayla?

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

3. What kind of tools are women of the clan allowed to make?

4. Where does Ayla go when she realizes that no one will interact with her, once cursed?

5. What does Iza do with Ayla's belongings?

(see the answer key)

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