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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the girl stay in the cave?
(a) Three days
(b) A month
(c) All day, that night, and most of the next day
(d) A week

2. Who is Broud and Oga's son?
(a) Goov
(b) Droog
(c) Brac
(d) Brun

3. What happens to the shelter?
(a) It washes away in a flood.
(b) The earth splits open and swallows it.
(c) It is struck by lightning.
(d) The earthquake causes a fire that burns it.

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

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

6. When is the book set?
(a) At least 25,000 years ago
(b) Less than 1,000 years ago
(c) More than 50,000 years ago
(d) Less than 6,000 years ago

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

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

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

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

11. Why does Ayla take Uba to Oga for nursing?
(a) Iza's milk is drying up.
(b) Iza has been cursed with death.
(c) Iza is preparing for a cave ceremony.
(d) Iza is injured.

12. What does Iza think is a usually a problem for women delivering babies?
(a) The babies' heads are too large.
(b) The babies are born too soon.
(c) Not enough females are born.
(d) Not enough males are born.

13. Why does Creb have an ideal location in the cave?
(a) Because of his deformities
(b) Because his sibling is medicine woman
(c) Because of his unique position in the clan's hierarchy
(d) Because he has arthritis

14. What is the lioness stalking when the girl gets too close?
(a) Bison
(b) Giant deer
(c) Aurochs
(d) Humans

15. What does Ayla decide to do with her sling while on the mammoth hunt trip?
(a) Wear it as a headband
(b) Leave it at the bottom of her carrying basket
(c) Leave it at her secret cave
(d) Hide it deep in the folds of her wrap

Short Answer Questions

1. What painkilling bark does Iza give Ayla for her fever and painful scratches?

2. What is Broud's totem?

3. What does Droog give Ayla?

4. Why does Creb reprimand Ayla?

5. What happens to convince the clan to start allowing Ayla to help Iza practice medicine?

(see the answer keys)

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