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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ceremony does Creb want to include with Durc's totem ceremony?
(a) A ceremony to mate Ayla with Vorn
(b) A ceremony to prepare for the Clan Gathering
(c) A ceremony to give the child special protection from his deformity
(d) A ceremony to make Ayla a medicine woman

2. Why does Vond come to Brun's clan?
(a) He wants to tell Brun his clan moved to a new cave.
(b) He wants to get advice and medicine for his sick mother.
(c) He wants to mate Ayla.
(d) He wants to tell Ayla that the man she saved at the Clan Gathering was walking again.

3. What concerns Brun at the Clan Gathering?
(a) He worries that Durc will attract too much notice.
(b) He worries that Iza will die while they are gone.
(c) He worries that his clan will lose their top status.
(d) He worries that he will be killed by the cave bear.

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

5. What does everyone in the clan watch Ayla do that winter?
(a) They watch across the hearth boundaries as Ayla goes to bed for the rest of her pregnancy.
(b) They watch as Ayla makes special clothes for her expected baby.
(c) They watch as Ayla struggles to decide on a mate.
(d) They watch as Ayla forgets her difficult pregnancy to nurse Iza back to health.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in the clan was also born deformed and allowed to live?

2. Who does Ayla ask to protect Durc before she goes?

3. What does Brun do during the running, spear-throwing contest that helps his status?

4. What does Brun threaten if they do not find Ayla before the naming day?

5. What does Creb do when he sees Ayla?

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