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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does Ayla get when thinking about the attack?
(a) She decides to learn to use the bola instead.
(b) She decides to try to learn to fling two stones from the sling in quick succession.
(c) She decides that she is ready for larger game.
(d) She decides that she cannot hunt meat eaters after all.

2. Where do the lion's claws mark the girl with four parallel gashes?
(a) Her left arm
(b) Her left thigh
(c) Her right thigh
(d) Her back

3. What direction does the cave face, making it an excellent selection for the clan's new home?
(a) South
(b) East
(c) North
(d) West

4. Why does Iza take Ayla to the other women?
(a) She is worried Ayla will not be accepted.
(b) Brun does not want Iza to get too attached to the child of the Others.
(c) She must see the Mog-ur to prepare for the ceremony.
(d) She must collect the sacred roots for the ceremony.

5. What had Brun planned to do to with Iza before she rescued Ayla?
(a) Have the Mog-ur provide for her
(b) Give her to Broud
(c) Take her and her baby to his own hearth
(d) Give her to Grod

6. What does Ayla do at the sea that no one else knows how to do?
(a) She wades in the shallow water.
(b) She swims.
(c) She catches fish with her bare hands.
(d) She digs for clams.

7. What does Broud have to do to prove he is now a man?
(a) Spend a week alone away from the clan
(b) Make his first kill
(c) Make a spear
(d) Withstand a manhood ritual

8. Iza is old for her first pregnancy. How old is she?
(a) 20
(b) 35
(c) 42
(d) 11

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

10. Why does Oga stop being friends with Ayla?
(a) Oga decides that Ayla is too tall and ugly.
(b) Oga will be mated to Broud, and Oga can see that Broud hates Ayla.
(c) Brun makes her stop befriending the child of the Others.
(d) Oga realizes that Ayla is much younger than her, even though they are the same size.

11. What must happen for Iza to stay at Creb's hearth?
(a) Brun must agree.
(b) The hunt must be successful.
(c) The spirits must give a sign at the cave ceremony.
(d) Her baby must be a girl.

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

13. What ceremony does Brun hope to include in the cave ceremony celebration?
(a) The ceremony to mate Iza and Creb
(b) The ceremony to make Ayla one of the clan
(c) The ceremony to make Grod new Mog-ur
(d) Broud's manhood ceremony

14. Why does Brun reprimand Broud?
(a) Broud is pestering the women too much.
(b) Broud is being lazy.
(c) Broud is taunting Ayla.
(d) Broud is beating Vorn.

15. What does Ayla try to kill with the sling and miss?
(a) A lynx
(b) A wolf
(c) A hyena
(d) A wolverine

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is the woman leading the women?

2. What are the men doing when Ayla sees them in the clearing?

3. How does Ayla survive the attack after the sling misses it's mark?

4. What does Ayla want while the clan continues traveling?

5. What does Ayla bring back to the cave?

(see the answer keys)

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