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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 Ayla take Uba to Oga for nursing?
(a) Iza is injured.
(b) Iza is preparing for a cave ceremony.
(c) Iza's milk is drying up.
(d) Iza has been cursed with death.

2. Why does Brun decide to hunt mammoth, even though it is a risky undertaking?
(a) His hunters spy mammoth traveling farther south than usual.
(b) He wants to stockpile food for the winter following the Clan Gathering.
(c) He wants to present mammoth gifts to the Clan Gathering host.
(d) His lucky clan can afford the luxury of taking some time off to hunt mammoth.

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

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

5. Why does Ayla start paying attention to Zoug?
(a) She feels bad for him because his mate died.
(b) She wants to please Creb, who suggests Zoug might be a good mate for her.
(c) Brun tells Ayla to pay attention to Zoug.
(d) She wants to watch him make slings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What drives her to leave?

3. Why does Creb reprimand Ayla?

4. What had Brun planned to do to with Iza before she rescued Ayla?

5. What is the girl doing before the earthquake?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the girl stay warm at night?

2. Why does Broud cuff Ayla?

3. What does Creb realize about Durc?

4. What does the girl do during the earthquake?

5. What does Ayla decide while she is practicing with the sling?

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

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

8. How does Ayla feel after the animal attack?

9. What do the clan members believe about how babies are conceived?

10. Why does Brun send Ayla to find Creb when he falls behind on the journey home?

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