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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What feature of Creb's hearth makes it especially ideal for him?
(a) It is right next to the outdoor spring of fresh water.
(b) The lack of sunlight keeps it from getting too hot.
(c) It is right next to the opening of the sacred ceremonial cave.
(d) An outcropping of stone protects him from the winds.

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

4. What kind of shelter does the girl's family have?
(a) A cave
(b) A mud-covered hut
(c) A hide-covered lean-to
(d) A wood frame house

5. How does Ayla believe she has made the right decision about learning to hunt?
(a) She finds a strange fossil, which she believes is a sign from her totem.
(b) She has a vision from Ursus.
(c) She finds an abandoned wolf pup, which reminds her of the delicate balance of life.
(d) She tells Creb, and he agrees with her rationalization.

6. What does Iza make for Ayla, meaning that Ayla will become one of the clan?
(a) A lynx coat
(b) An amulet
(c) Shoes
(d) A medicine bag

7. What does Creb want to teach Ayla?
(a) How to hunt
(b) How to make his arthritis medicine
(c) How to be a Mog-ur
(d) How to communicate properly with signals

8. What drives her to leave?
(a) Thirst
(b) Her sunburn
(c) Hunger
(d) Her wound

9. What do the older men use to hunt small animals?
(a) Bows and arrows
(b) Guns
(c) Stones
(d) A sling

10. Who is the leader of the Clan?
(a) The Mog-ur
(b) Creb
(c) Broud
(d) Brun

11. Why does Iza believe her healing magic will work on the child of the Others?
(a) Her trainer prepared her for such a possibility.
(b) Her knowledge of healing includes different procedures for the two races of humans.
(c) Her mother had healed a man of the Others.
(d) The Clan leader demands that she try to save the child.

12. What is Broud's totem?
(a) Wooly Mammoth
(b) Cave Lion
(c) Wooly Rhinoceros
(d) Cave Bear

13. 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.

14. Where does Ayla begin hiding her sling as she learns to hunt?
(a) In her collecting basket
(b) In the hazelnut bushes in front of her cave
(c) In her shoes
(d) In the folds of her wrap

15. 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 Grod
(c) Give her to Broud
(d) Take her and her baby to his own hearth

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayla do at the sea that no one else knows how to do?

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

3. How do the clan members differ from the girl?

4. How does Iza transport the unconscious girl?

5. Where do the lion's claws mark the girl with four parallel gashes?

(see the answer keys)

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