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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Uba have to spend a few days alone?
(a) She has become a woman.
(b) She must pass the solitude test to become medicine woman.
(c) She has a temporary death curse for touching Ayla's sling.
(d) She has a contagious illness.

2. What does Broud do that shocks Ayla when he finds her alone?
(a) He gives her the signal for sex.
(b) He beats her.
(c) He attacks her.
(d) He kisses her.

3. What does Ayla become obsessed with while playing the bowl drum rhythms?
(a) She worries what has become of Durc.
(b) She worries that Iza has died.
(c) She worries that Iza's ancient bowl is lost.
(d) She worries that she is too tall and ugly.

4. What is Ayla's punishment for her defiance?
(a) She is never allowed to hunt again.
(b) She is not allowed to go to the Clan Gathering.
(c) The full death curse for one moon
(d) The woman's curse - isolation to Creb's hearth for one moon

5. When Brun finds Ayla, what is wrong with her?
(a) She has gotten a consumptive lung disease.
(b) She has broken her arm.
(c) She has been attacked by a lynx.
(d) She has an infection from failing to nurse her baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayla do first when she sees Brun?

2. Who is the only other mother with plenty of milk for more than one baby?

3. Who reminds Brun that Ayla is lucky?

4. Who warns Ayla that she will die if she forces the clan to accept her child?

5. What does Ayla do that Creb finds unforgivable?

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