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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 Droog allow Ayla to watch him make the tools for the mammoth hunt?
(a) He wants to spite Broud, whose comments about old men have made Droog angry.
(b) He wants her to be available to get him water if he needs it.
(c) He believes her presence will bring him luck.
(d) Creb suggests to him that she would make Droog a good mate.

2. Why does Creb reprimand Ayla?
(a) Ayla is being discourteous by looking at other people's conversations.
(b) Ayla is pestering Iza too much.
(c) Ayla is being lazy.
(d) Ayla is drawing counting marks in the sand.

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

4. What does Iza believe about Ayla's future?
(a) She believes that Ayla will leave the clan when Broud becomes leader.
(b) She believes that Ayla will be mated to a clan leader.
(c) She believes that Ayla will be one of the best medicine women because she has a gift.
(d) She believes that Ayla will have no status because she is ugly and will not have a mate.

5. How does Brun secretly feel about the news of Iza's baby's gender?
(a) Sorrowful
(b) Relieved
(c) Regretful
(d) Angry

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Creb have an ideal location in the cave?

2. What drives her to leave?

3. What idea does Ayla get when thinking about the attack?

4. Why does Ayla take Uba to Oga for nursing?

5. Why is Iza the leader of the women?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the mog-urs finally decide to accept Ayla and let her make the special ceremonial drink?

3. What does Creb realize about Durc?

4. How does Ayla feel when she makes her first kill?

5. What is Creb's unique ability?

6. Why does Broud have Ayla cursed?

7. Why does the medicine woman have status of her own, regardless of her mate?

8. Why does Brun feel sorrow about the events with Broud's race?

9. How does Ayla feel about the strange people caring for her?

10. How does Ayla act towards Broud after she returns?

(see the answer keys)

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