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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Broud constantly harass Ayla?
(a) He wants to gain respect of his mate, Oga.
(b) He wants to make her pay for threatening his manhood.
(c) He wants to prove to Brun that he will make a good leader.
(d) It is his way of teasing her because he likes her.

3. What does Ayla want while the clan continues traveling?
(a) She wants to pick flowers for her new friends.
(b) She wants to learn to hunt.
(c) She wants to run away.
(d) She wants to learn to find food.

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

5. What does the hunt indicate to the clan about the cave?
(a) The clan will need to hunt all winter.
(b) The cave is a good place to stalk forest game.
(c) The spirits are happy with their new home.
(d) The spirits want the clan to find a home closer to the steppes.

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

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

8. What does Ayla bring back to the cave?
(a) A wounded cave lion
(b) An abandoned baby wolf
(c) A special fossil
(d) A wounded rabbit

9. 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.

10. Why does Ayla start paying attention to Zoug?
(a) Brun tells Ayla to pay attention to Zoug.
(b) She feels bad for him because his mate died.
(c) She wants to please Creb, who suggests Zoug might be a good mate for her.
(d) She wants to watch him make slings.

11. How do the clan members differ from the girl?
(a) They have a short, thick neck that supports their long, large flat heads.
(b) They have long, thin bones that make them tall and thin.
(c) They have tall, long foreheads with lots of blond hair.
(d) They have slight but powerful muscles.

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

13. How does Brun feel about Ayla during the winter of Broud's constant abuse of Ayla?
(a) Brun begins to wish he had never adopted her into the clan.
(b) Brun believes that Ayla will be a good example to Broud.
(c) Brun believes she acts like a baby.
(d) Brun begins to respect Ayla.

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

15. 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) Roe deer bones
(c) A spring of clean water
(d) Hyena droppings

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ayla try to kill with the sling and miss?

3. What is Broud's totem?

4. How does Ayla look at Creb?

5. Iza is old for her first pregnancy. How old is she?

(see the answer keys)

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