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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who argues with Broud about Ayla's behavior?
(a) Creb
(b) Droog
(c) Goov
(d) Zoug

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

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

4. What is one of Broud's talents?
(a) Using the bola
(b) Making tools
(c) Calling the spirits
(d) Leading the hunt dances

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

6. What does Ayla decide?
(a) She decides to give the baby up.
(b) She decides to go back before the naming day and ask forgiveness.
(c) She decides to stay in the cave alone.
(d) She decides to go away and try to find a new cave and new people.

7. What is Iza's final wish to the spirits before she dies?
(a) She wants Broud to accept Ayla.
(b) She wants to see her loved ones before she dies.
(c) She wants some more elecampane to treat her cough.
(d) She wants Ayla to be mated.

8. What does the ceremony make Ayla?
(a) An equal with the men
(b) The new mog-ur
(c) The Woman Who Hunts
(d) Servant to the Ancient Spirits

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

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

11. What does Iza tell Creb about Ayla?
(a) Ayla is lost.
(b) Ayla is hiding.
(c) Ayla is weak from the birth and not expected to live.
(d) Ayla is burying the baby.

12. What does Creb tell Ayla near the beginning of Chapter 24?
(a) That the man she saved is marked by Ursus now
(b) That she must prepare herself, which means the other mog-urs have accepted her
(c) That she is the medicine woman of the highest status
(d) That she is accepted by Zoug's kin and has found a mate

13. What does Broud do that shocks Ayla when he finds her alone?
(a) He kisses her.
(b) He beats her.
(c) He attacks her.
(d) He gives her the signal for sex.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Durc's totem?

2. What fear encourages Ayla to keep going during her difficult delivery?

3. What does Ayla do that astonishes the other clans?

4. What does everyone in the clan watch Ayla do that winter?

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

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