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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 does Droog give Ayla?
(a) His toolmaking kit
(b) His hammerstone
(c) A bone hammer for finishing tools
(d) Some extra tools created when making his hand axe

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

3. Iza is old for her first pregnancy. How old is she?
(a) 20
(b) 11
(c) 42
(d) 35

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

5. Why does Brun reprimand Broud?
(a) Broud is pestering the women too much.
(b) Broud is beating Vorn.
(c) Broud is taunting Ayla.
(d) Broud is being lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens while the women are preparing the mammoth for the journey home?

2. How many members does the clan have after losing some in the earthquake?

3. Why does Ayla go out alone?

4. Why does Ayla start paying attention to Zoug?

5. How does Brun feel about Ayla during the winter of Broud's constant abuse of Ayla?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the girl to run after the earthquake?

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

3. How does Ayla feel after the animal attack?

4. What does Iza fear will happen after she dies?

5. Why is the clan traveling?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Iza comfort Ayla when she gets upset after looking in the pool?

(see the answer keys)

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