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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ayla do during the cave bear ceremony?
(a) She rushes into the battle to apply a tourniquet to a wounded hunter.
(b) She picks up a spear to help kill the bear.
(c) She uses her sling on the bear.
(d) She mourns for the fallen hunter.

2. What does Uba deliver?
(a) A deformed baby missing arms and legs
(b) A heathy baby boy
(c) A deformed, stillborn set of conjoined twins
(d) A healty baby girl

3. What game do Ayla and Durc play together?
(a) A game of stacking rocks
(b) A game of making sounds
(c) A game of pretending they are mates
(d) A game of throwing spears

4. What happens to Gorn, one of the hunters fighting the cave bear?
(a) The bear bites him.
(b) The bear gives him a gash that makes him bleed to death.
(c) The bear steps on him.
(d) The bear snaps his spine.

5. What honor do Broud and Voord, the remaining of the three cave bear ceremony hunters have at the feast?
(a) They participate in the sacred ceremony usually only for mog-urs.
(b) They lead the dances.
(c) They offer a plate of food to Ursus.
(d) They go to the spirit world with Ursus to speak with the spirits.

6. What is Ayla's punishment for her defiance?
(a) She is not allowed to go to the Clan Gathering.
(b) The woman's curse - isolation to Creb's hearth for one moon
(c) The full death curse for one moon
(d) She is never allowed to hunt again.

7. Why does Uba have to spend a few days alone?
(a) She has become a woman.
(b) She has a contagious illness.
(c) She has a temporary death curse for touching Ayla's sling.
(d) She must pass the solitude test to become medicine woman.

8. What comes first for Brun, which makes his decision about Ayla's punishment difficult?
(a) He always thinks of the needs of the whole clan first.
(b) His prejudice against women always comes first.
(c) His belief in the spirits always comes first.
(d) His love of his family, including his grandson Brac, comes first.

9. What is Durc's totem?
(a) Roe Deer
(b) Grey Wolf
(c) Wooly Rhinoceros
(d) Cave Lion

10. What happens when Iza goes out to get a root to help prevent miscarriage for Ayla?
(a) Iza comes back sick from her consumptive lung disease.
(b) Uba helps Ayla rest and recover.
(c) Iza breaks her leg while she is gone.
(d) Ayla loses the baby anyway.

11. Why is Ayla secretly grateful to Broud?
(a) His refusal means she does not have to treat his sons illnesses and injuries.
(b) His refusal allows Durc to stay with her at night.
(c) His refusal means she does not have to compete with Oga.
(d) His refusal means she can teach Uba how to make baby food.

12. What does Creb do when he sees Ayla?
(a) He throws his arm around her and hugs her in spite of customs about emotions.
(b) He does not see her; he believes the curse is still in effect.
(c) He falls to the ground, fainting from fear of her spirit.
(d) He runs to his small annex to see if the curse is over.

13. How long does Brun decide to make the death curse?
(a) One moon
(b) One week
(c) One quarter
(d) One year

14. What do the men decide about Ayla's fate?
(a) They decide to let her live, but she can never touch the sling again.
(b) They decide to condemn her with death.
(c) The vote is tied and up to Brun, who wants to think about it until morning.
(d) They decide to let her live and become a hunter.

15. What does Ayla find to make her believe she made the right decision?
(a) A piece of iron pyrite
(b) A cave lion track
(c) A small fossilized sea animal
(d) A piece of red ochre

Short Answer Questions

1. What concerns Brun at the Clan Gathering?

2. What ceremony does Creb want to include with Durc's totem ceremony?

3. What does Ayla become obsessed with while playing the bowl drum rhythms?

4. What happens to help reconcile Ayla and Creb?

5. Why are the clan members surprised at Ayla's pregnancy?

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