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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ayla like to wear for comfort?
(a) Both of these.
(b) A leather wrap around her breasts.
(c) A leather thong around her hair.
(d) Neither of these.

2. What did Ayla find on her way back?
(a) A baby cave lion.
(b) A trampled fawn.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

3. What were the traveling cakes made of?
(a) Ground up dried meat.
(b) All of these.
(c) Dried berries.
(d) Rendered animal fat.

4. What does Thonolan tell Jondalar he has to look forward to?
(a) The next sunrise.
(b) The next bend in the river.
(c) All of these.
(d) The next woman he beds.

5. Why did Ayla hesitate at the invoking of the Clan spirits?
(a) She was no longer a member of the Clan.
(b) She wasn't a Mog-ur.
(c) She didn't know how to call upon them.
(d) She wasn't sure they would approve.

6. What made the young horse come to Ayla?
(a) A click.
(b) A finger snap.
(c) A whistle.
(d) A warble.

7. What was the tree called that was adorned with offerings?
(a) The Mating Tree.
(b) The Wishing Tree.
(c) The Blessing Tree.
(d) The Mother Tree.

8. What must Thonolan do before he can mate Jetamio?
(a) Propose to her.
(b) Finish the boat he started on.
(c) All of these.
(d) Win her heart through a feat of strength.

9. What did the hyena manage to make off with?
(a) A haunch.
(b) A leg.
(c) None of these.
(d) A whole shank.

10. What was Ayla's hide tent made of?
(a) Giant Deer.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Bear skin.
(d) Aurochs.

11. What made Ayla grateful for the height of her cave?
(a) The summer fires.
(b) All of these.
(c) The spring floods.
(d) The nearness of the cave lions.

12. What were plantain leaves good for?
(a) Sturdy, healing bandages for cuts and wounds.
(b) Poultices for a cough.
(c) All of these.
(d) When in tea form, soaking ones feet would remove weariness.

13. What large animal did Ayla decide to hunt?
(a) A horse.
(b) A mammoth.
(c) An auroch.
(d) A woolly rhinoceros.

14. Where did Jondalar put one of the tunics?
(a) He left it on a hillside.
(b) He burnt it.
(c) High in a tree.
(d) He buried it.

15. What had Broud done to hurt Ayla?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) He cursed her and sent her away.
(d) He took her son away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ayla's fear regarding the Others?

2. What is the foehn?

3. Why didn't Ayla want one of the older reindeer?

4. What did Ayla decide she would gather that day?

5. What did the fossil of the gastropod represent to her?

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