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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the clan members feel about Broud's abuse toward Ayla?
(a) Few believe that Broud goes far enough in her punishment of her insolence.
(b) Most believe the strange girl deserve the harsh treatment because of her differences.
(c) Few approve of the lengths to which Broud uses to keep her in line
(d) Most believe it is a test from Ayla's totem.

2. Who is destined to be Broud's mate?
(a) Uka
(b) Ovra
(c) Oga
(d) Ayla

3. How old is the young girl at the beginning of the book?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Three
(d) Six

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

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

6. Who sends Ayla to get wood with the other children?
(a) Aga
(b) Ebra
(c) Iza
(d) Ona

7. Why is Iza the leader of the women?
(a) She is the oldest woman.
(b) She is medicine woman.
(c) She is the leader's mate.
(d) She is the leader's sibling.

8. 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.

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

10. Why does Brun reprimand Broud in the clearing?
(a) For being lazy
(b) For lashing out at Zoug in anger
(c) For messing up the ceremony
(d) For trying to teach Vorn to use the sling

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

12. 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

13. What does Iza believe about Ayla's future?
(a) She believes that Ayla will leave the clan when Broud becomes leader.
(b) She believes that Ayla will be mated to a clan leader.
(c) She believes that Ayla will have no status because she is ugly and will not have a mate.
(d) She believes that Ayla will be one of the best medicine women because she has a gift.

14. 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

15. How does Ayla look at Creb?
(a) With curiosity about his disfigurement
(b) With tearful memories of her father
(c) With fear that he is the spiritual leader
(d) With indifference

Short Answer Questions

1. What skill does Ayla have already that helps her learn to track animals?

2. What happens while the women are preparing the mammoth for the journey home?

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

4. What is the girl doing before the earthquake?

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

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