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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color does Thonolan miss?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Orange.
(d) Yellow.

2. How many flatheads surrounded Jondalar and Thonolan?
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

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

4. Who had been the Clan's master toolmaker?
(a) Droog.
(b) Iza.
(c) Creb.
(d) Brun.

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

6. What was the little foal more afraid of?
(a) Being alone.
(b) Ayla.
(c) The hyenas.
(d) Leaving its dam.

7. What landmark does Laduni tell Jondalar and Thonolan to look for?
(a) A gnarled tree with no leaves.
(b) A mountain with two peaks.
(c) A big whirlpool in the river.
(d) A tree with three trunks.

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

9. Who was the young woman Jondalar had been talking to?
(a) Jatmio.
(b) Jetamio.
(c) Jetmio.
(d) Tamio.

10. What did Jondalar fear while traveling by boat?
(a) All of these.
(b) A leak.
(c) A collision.
(d) A capsizing.

11. What distinct advantage did the cave offer?
(a) Its location close to running water.
(b) Its steep path would be hard to traverse for predatory animals.
(c) Its location high above the valley.
(d) A hole for smoke to escape.

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

13. What kind of tree isn't mentioned for lance making?
(a) Willow.
(b) Ash.
(c) Alder.
(d) Pine.

14. What is the only thing Ayla lacked in the valley?
(a) People.
(b) Food.
(c) Flint.
(d) Wood.

15. What does Jondalar wish the healer would let him do?
(a) Help his brother.
(b) Help the healer.
(c) Ask the zelandoni how they had known to come.
(d) Stay with his brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the problem with fording the channels?

2. In what direction was the rhino nearly blind?

3. Who was Jondalar supposed to mate at the Summer Meeting?

4. How long had the boat turned out to be?

5. What had caused Ayla to forget the intense cold of the steppes?

(see the answer keys)

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