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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What secret herbal medicine does Iza take to spite her mate?
(a) A memory enhancer
(b) A weight reducer
(c) A fertility enhancer
(d) Birth control

2. What idea does Ayla get when thinking about the attack?
(a) She decides to learn to use the bola instead.
(b) She decides that she cannot hunt meat eaters after all.
(c) She decides to try to learn to fling two stones from the sling in quick succession.
(d) She decides that she is ready for larger game.

3. Why does Iza stop working while the women are winnowing grain?
(a) She is dying.
(b) She goes into labor.
(c) Creb wants her to save her energy for a ceremony.
(d) She must tend to a sick child.

4. What men stay behind to protect the cave?
(a) Grod and Brun
(b) Broud and Vorn
(c) Zoug and Dorv
(d) Creb and Goov

5. What else does the girl do as she runs away from the terrifying earthquake?
(a) She stops to nap during the day.
(b) She stops to drink from the stream when thirsty or for a feeling of fullness when hungry.
(c) She stops to cry for her mother.
(d) She stops to play with pebbles by the stream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Iza make for Ayla, meaning that Ayla will become one of the clan?

2. What does Ayla do wrong when Broud hits her?

3. How does Ayla act towards Broud after the beating?

4. Who is destined to be Broud's mate?

5. What skill does Ayla have already that helps her learn to track animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ayla focus on once cursed with death?

2. Why does Ayla think she should be able to keep the baby?

3. Why does Broud cuff Ayla?

4. What is the punishment for a woman who touches a weapon?

5. How did the woman in the legend have her deformed son accepted?

6. What does Ayla realize about her son's deformity?

7. What did Ayla realize when she kills the porcupine?

8. What does Brun realize when he sees the hyena's wounds?

9. Why does Ayla ask to be cursed if Brun refuses to accept the baby?

10. What besides grief makes Ayla suffer?

(see the answer keys)

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