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

2. What does Ayla do that reveals her secret skill?
(a) She kills the hyena.
(b) She jumps into the stream and saves him from drowning.
(c) She kills a mammoth.
(d) She tracks Brac through the woods and finds him.

3. Why does Brun reprimand Broud in the clearing?
(a) For being lazy
(b) For lashing out at Zoug in anger
(c) For trying to teach Vorn to use the sling
(d) For messing up the ceremony

4. What does Ayla want while the clan continues traveling?
(a) She wants to pick flowers for her new friends.
(b) She wants to learn to find food.
(c) She wants to run away.
(d) She wants to learn to hunt.

5. Why does Iza take Ayla to the other women?
(a) She must see the Mog-ur to prepare for the ceremony.
(b) She must collect the sacred roots for the ceremony.
(c) Brun does not want Iza to get too attached to the child of the Others.
(d) She is worried Ayla will not be accepted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the leader of the Clan?

2. How long does the girl stay in the cave?

3. What most influences the leader to let Iza help the girl?

4. What happens to convince the clan to start allowing Ayla to help Iza practice medicine?

5. What does Creb want to teach Ayla?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the clan traveling?

2. What does the girl do during the earthquake?

3. What is Creb's argument for not cursing Ayla for almost trying to force Brun to accept the baby?

4. Why does Broud become sexually interested in Ayla?

5. How do the women treat Ayla after she returns?

6. Why does Creb take Durc to the other women for nursing?

7. What does Creb realize when he learns of Ayla's crime?

8. What makes the girl blindly rush straight toward the herd of wild cows?

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

10. What things does Creb consider when selecting a totem for a child?

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