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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ceremony does Creb want to include with Durc's totem ceremony?
(a) A ceremony to mate Ayla with Vorn
(b) A ceremony to prepare for the Clan Gathering
(c) A ceremony to give the child special protection from his deformity
(d) A ceremony to make Ayla a medicine woman

2. Where does Ayla go when she realizes that no one will interact with her, once cursed?
(a) To her secret cave
(b) To the ocean
(c) To a small annex at the back of the clan cave
(d) To a nearby valley

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

4. Why does Oda approach Ayla?
(a) She wants to learn from the top medicine woman.
(b) She wants to talk about the Others.
(c) She wants Ayla to take her deformed baby.
(d) She wants her baby to mate Durc when they are older.

5. What does Ayla become obsessed with while playing the bowl drum rhythms?
(a) She worries that Iza's ancient bowl is lost.
(b) She worries what has become of Durc.
(c) She worries that she is too tall and ugly.
(d) She worries that Iza has died.

6. What does Ayla decide she would rather do than leave, like Iza suggested?
(a) She would rather have her own hearth than leave.
(b) She would rather keep Creb alive a few more years than leave.
(c) She would rather be Broud's mate than leave.
(d) She would rather be second woman to Vorn than leave.

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

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

9. What is the bad news after the baby is born?
(a) The baby is a boy.
(b) The baby is deformed.
(c) The baby is a girl.
(d) The baby is stillborn.

10. What does Creb tell Ayla she can do for his sadness about her witnessing the ceremony?
(a) She must leave the clan and find her own people.
(b) She should never mention it again.
(c) She must die for it.
(d) She can prepare him some of Iza's secret remedies.

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

12. How does Broud accept the baby?
(a) Broud is spiteful, thinking of a way to hurt the baby.
(b) Brun has to order Broud to accept the baby.
(c) Broud is resigned to whatever the clan decides.
(d) Broud is happy to accept the baby, realizing it is his child.

13. What does Brun do during the running, spear-throwing contest that helps his status?
(a) He rushes the men to make the final race so that Broud will win.
(b) He tells everyone that Broud will win.
(c) He suggests letting Gorn rest before the final race.
(d) He makes it to the finals through sheer guts and stamina.

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

15. What happens to Iza's bowl?
(a) One of the mog-urs steps on it.
(b) Another medicine woman steals it.
(c) It breaks.
(d) It is lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayla do that Creb finds unforgivable?

2. Why does Ayla cry after looking in a pool of water?

3. How does Ayla come out of her depression?

4. What does Ayla do to prepare the ceremonial drink?

5. What does Ayla do to avoid watching other women nurse Durc?

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