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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Ayla ask to protect Durc before she goes?
(a) Ebra
(b) Brun
(c) Uba
(d) Oga

3. 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 the baby will be deformed.
(c) She fears the baby will die and she will never have another one.
(d) She fears that she will have to hunt for the baby herself.

4. What is wrong with the drink Ayla makes?
(a) It is the wrong color.
(b) It is too weak.
(c) It is not enough for the ten mog-urs.
(d) It is too strong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does Creb realize when watching Durc, who is almost walking now?
(a) He realizes that Durc is the future of the clan.
(b) He realizes that Durc is a mixture of the clan's and Others' spirits.
(c) He realizes that Durc's deformity will make him retarded.
(d) He realizes that Durc will not be able to hunt.

14. Who reminds Brun that Ayla is lucky?
(a) Goov
(b) Creb
(c) Zoug
(d) Droog

15. What happens to help reconcile Ayla and Creb?
(a) Ayla has her nightmare about the cave lion attack.
(b) Ayla has her nightmare about the earthquake.
(c) Durc uses his word for Mama in front of Creb.
(d) Durc gets hurt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the only other mother with plenty of milk for more than one baby?

3. What ceremony does Brun want to plan with the Mog-ur?

4. What happens when Iza goes out to get a root to help prevent miscarriage for Ayla?

5. When Brun finds Ayla, what is wrong with her?

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