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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. Why does Iza decide to teach Ayla medicine?
(a) She fears that her medicine line will die with her.
(b) She fears that she will not be able to take care of Creb much longer.
(c) She wants revenge on her cruel former mate.
(d) She believes that Ayla will be too ugly to find a mate, so she needs status in her own right.

2. What does Ayla bring back to the cave?
(a) A wounded rabbit
(b) An abandoned baby wolf
(c) A special fossil
(d) A wounded cave lion

3. What does Broud offer to make Vorn?
(a) A bow
(b) A sling
(c) A bola
(d) A spear

4. Where does the clan allow gestures of affection?
(a) Anywhere
(b) Only outside the cave
(c) Nowhere
(d) In the boundaries of the fire only

5. What does Ayla do at the sea that no one else knows how to do?
(a) She wades in the shallow water.
(b) She swims.
(c) She digs for clams.
(d) She catches fish with her bare hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Creb want to teach Ayla?

2. What happens to the shelter?

3. What direction does the cave face, making it an excellent selection for the clan's new home?

4. Why does Iza stay at Creb's hearth?

5. What does the hunt indicate to the clan about the cave?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Broud envision about the combined cave ceremony and his manhood ceremony?

3. How does Ayla finally begin to understand the clan language?

4. Why are Brun and Broud and their mates relieved when they return to the cave?

5. What does the girl do during the earthquake?

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

7. How does the girl stay warm at night?

8. What does Iza speculate saved the girl from the cave lion attack?

9. How does the clan feel about Ayla staring as she learns the language?

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

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