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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What angers Broud as the clan is preparing to leave the Clan Gathering?
(a) Oda's leader asks if her daughter can mate Durc.
(b) Voord insults him for cheating in the races.
(c) Everyone is talking about Ayla.
(d) He finds out that Ayla witnessed the mog-ur ceremony.

2. What does Brun threaten if they do not find Ayla before the naming day?
(a) He plans to mate Ayla and Broud.
(b) He plans to make Ayla dispose of the child.
(c) He refuses to allow Ayla to hunt anymore.
(d) He refuses to go the Clan Gathering if he loses face.

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

4. 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 make Ayla a medicine woman
(c) A ceremony to prepare for the Clan Gathering
(d) A ceremony to mate Ayla with Vorn

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

6. What does Brun do during the running, spear-throwing contest that helps his status?
(a) He tells everyone that Broud will win.
(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 makes it to the finals through sheer guts and stamina.

7. What does Ayla do first when she sees Brun?
(a) She tells him where the small cave is.
(b) She asks to be cursed as well if he curses the baby.
(c) She begs him to let her child live.
(d) She asks forgiveness for defying him.

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

9. What does Creb find when he goes to his annex to break the death curse by changing the pattern of bones?
(a) The Cave Lion spirit shows himself and tells Creb to make Ayla a hunter.
(b) The curse is still in effect.
(c) The curse has already been broken.
(d) Rodents have taken over the annex.

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

11. Who in the clan was also born deformed and allowed to live?
(a) Brun
(b) Dorv
(c) Creb
(d) Zoug

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

13. Who does Broud make his second-in-command?
(a) Goov
(b) Creg
(c) Vorn
(d) Borg

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

15. What does Iza do with Ayla's belongings?
(a) She leaves them as is, in anticipation for Ayla's return.
(b) She hides them.
(c) She burns them.
(d) She sets them aside for Ayla to take with her to the spirit world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies in the earthquake?

2. What does Creb tell Ayla she can do for his sadness about her witnessing the ceremony?

3. What does Broud refuse?

4. What is the bad news after the baby is born?

5. What is Ayla's punishment for her defiance?

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