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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayla do at the sea that no one else knows how to do?

2. Why does another lion chase the girl?

3. Why does Ayla start paying attention to Zoug?

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

5. What kind of tools are women of the clan allowed to make?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the problem with Ayla forcing Brun to accept her child?

2. What does Brun realize when he sees the hyena's wounds?

3. What is the punishment for a woman who touches a weapon?

4. How does the clan feel about Ayla staring as she learns the language?

5. Why do many of the clan think it would be better if Ayla lost the baby?

6. Why are Brun and Broud and their mates relieved when they return to the cave?

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

8. Why does Ayla become the center of attention after the first female sturgeon is caught?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining how evolution plays a part in the novel. How is Ayla more evolved than the clan? What are the effects of her being more evolved? How do these effects influence the events in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

One of the differences between Ayla and the clan is her ability to conceive new innovations.

Part 1) What are some of the innovations that Ayla thinks of during the novel?

Part 2) What are the implications of these innovations? Do they influence the plot? How?

Part 3) How do Ayla's new ideas help her to survive? How do they threaten her survival in the strict structure and culture of the clan?

Essay Topic 3

Choose three things that Ayla considers tests from her totem.

Part 1) What are the tests? Describe the things that she thinks of as tests from her totem.

Part 2) In what ways do the tests challenge her?

Part 3) What are the rewards for meeting these challenges?

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