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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was determined to be the real reason Jondalar was interested in boat making?
(a) He was interested in the tools.
(b) He was interested in learning to make a boat.
(c) All of these.
(d) He was interested in the buoyancy of the boats.

2. When did Ayla realize that Whinney had gone where Ayla wanted her to go?
(a) When she flushed a giant hamster.
(b) When she flushed a ptarmigan.
(c) When she got Whinney to jump a creek.
(d) None of these.

3. Why can't Jondalar mate Joplaya?
(a) She is his sister.
(b) She is his cousin.
(c) She is close kin.
(d) None of these.

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

5. What stone, when combined with flint, produced a spark?
(a) Iron pyrite.
(b) Quartz.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

6. What animal's tails adorned Jondalar and Thonolan's parkas?
(a) Horse.
(b) Fox.
(c) Ermine.
(d) Wolf.

7. How long had the boat turned out to be?
(a) Ten feet in length.
(b) Fifty feet in length.
(c) Twenty five feet in length.
(d) Sixty feet in length.

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

9. What was the burly man carrying on his back?
(a) A wizened old woman.
(b) A large bale of hay.
(c) Mammoth tusks.
(d) The horse haunches.

10. What is the foehn?
(a) A heat wave.
(b) A summer wind.
(c) A spring wind.
(d) A cold snap.

11. What was interesting about the person with dignified bearing?
(a) The person was female and a healer.
(b) The person looked like a female but was a male.
(c) The person was male, and a healer.
(d) The person was androgynous.

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

13. Why didn't Ayla want one of the older reindeer?
(a) Their hides were scarred.
(b) Their meat was tough.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

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

15. What innovation allowed Ayla to move the deer and her newest acquisition?
(a) None of these.
(b) A cart.
(c) The wheel.
(d) Two spears dragging instead of the dead weight of the carcass.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many flatheads surrounded Jondalar and Thonolan?

2. What did Jondalar give Noria?

3. Who was the woman that Jondalar was seeing?

4. What had become a foregone luxury?

5. What did Ayla rely on when night fell?

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