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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Creb name the baby?
(a) Grev
(b) Durc
(c) Creb
(d) Brun

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

4. What fear encourages Ayla to keep going during her difficult delivery?
(a) She fears that Iza and Creb will not love her anymore.
(b) She fears that she will have to hunt for the baby herself.
(c) She fears the baby will be deformed.
(d) She fears the baby will die and she will never have another one.

5. Who does Ayla say she missed while she was gone to break the tension?
(a) Creb
(b) Brac
(c) Zoug
(d) Broud

6. How does Creb begin the ceremony?
(a) By invoking the totems to explain his attempts to make the Cave Lion happy
(b) By invoking the ancient female spirits
(c) By taking Ayla in the special place the men usually have ceremonies
(d) By having Ayla make a drink from datura

7. Why does Vond come to Brun's clan?
(a) He wants to get advice and medicine for his sick mother.
(b) He wants to tell Ayla that the man she saved at the Clan Gathering was walking again.
(c) He wants to mate Ayla.
(d) He wants to tell Brun his clan moved to a new cave.

8. What does Iza tell Ayla before she dies?
(a) That she is right about her ideas of how Durc is a mixture spirits
(b) That she must take care of Uba for her
(c) That she must leave and find her own people
(d) That she must be kind to Broud, even though he hates her

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

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

11. What instruction does Ayla get during her womanhood curse?
(a) Where to go when Broud becomes leader
(b) Ways to avoid men who might want to pester her
(c) Who she should mate
(d) Everything she needs to know about being a woman

12. What does Broud do to hurt Ayla?
(a) He announces he will take Ayla to his hearth, but not Durc.
(b) He announces her future children will not be allowed to live.
(c) He beats her for resisting his leadership.
(d) He announces she cannot hunt any longer.

13. 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.

14. How does Ayla keep track of the time during her curse?
(a) She counts the days on her fingers.
(b) She collects bones from the animals she kills.
(c) She draws pictures of the phases of the moon on her cave wall.
(d) She makes a notch in a stick every night.

15. Who convinces Ayla to leave the cave after she is almost not admitted?
(a) Norg
(b) Oda
(c) Uba
(d) Creb

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ayla come out of her depression?

2. Who from Brun's clan is chosen for the Cave Bear Ceremony?

3. What does Iza do with Ayla's belongings?

4. What does Creb tell Ayla near the beginning of Chapter 24?

5. Why does Ayla thank Brun?

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