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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who from Brun's clan is chosen for the Cave Bear Ceremony?
(a) Vorn
(b) Broud
(c) Droog
(d) Goov

3. What happens at the end of the curse?
(a) Ayla kills a deer for food and its skin.
(b) A blizzard keeps Ayla in the cave.
(c) The men find Ayla's secret cave.
(d) Uba finds Ayla's secret cave.

4. 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.

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

6. Who becomes Uba's mate?
(a) Goov
(b) Grod
(c) Borg
(d) Vorn

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

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

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 Ayla do to avoid watching other women nurse Durc?
(a) She starts weaving lots of baskets.
(b) She starts training Uba to be medicine woman.
(c) She begins hunting again.
(d) She starts painting pictures on the cave walls.

11. 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 suggests letting Gorn rest before the final race.
(c) He tells everyone that Broud will win.
(d) He makes it to the finals through sheer guts and stamina.

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

13. Why does Ayla cry after looking in a pool of water?
(a) She is upset that Iza will not let her keep the deerskin she made during her death curse.
(b) She realizes she is ugly to the clan and will never have a mate.
(c) She wants to have a baby.
(d) She is exhausted from the tests sent by her totem the Cave Lion.

14. What does Creb "remind" the men about the clan's ancient past?
(a) The cave bear and the cave lion females hunt.
(b) Women once hunted as well as men.
(c) The totem spirits are the only spirits the clan has ever had.
(d) Women used to hunt while men protected the young.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Uba have to spend a few days alone?

2. What is Durc's totem?

3. What does Ayla decide she would rather do than leave, like Iza suggested?

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

5. What does Creb realize when watching Durc, who is almost walking now?

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