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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ayla do that Creb finds unforgivable?
(a) She pours out the extra liquid from the ceremonial drink.
(b) She witnesses the sacred ceremony of the mog-urs.
(c) She has sex with a man from another clan.
(d) She touches a weapon at the Clan Gathering.

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

6. What concerns Brun at the Clan Gathering?
(a) He worries that Durc will attract too much notice.
(b) He worries that Iza will die while they are gone.
(c) He worries that his clan will lose their top status.
(d) He worries that he will be killed by the cave bear.

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

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

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

10. How does Ayla come out of her depression?
(a) She knows that Broud can do nothing else to her.
(b) She starts planning for the Clan Gathering.
(c) She realizes she is going to have a baby.
(d) She starts hunting and collecting medicinal plants again.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What angers Broud as the clan is preparing to leave the Clan Gathering?

2. What does Broud refuse?

3. What does Brun threaten if they do not find Ayla before the naming day?

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

5. Who convinces Ayla to leave the cave after she is almost not admitted?

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