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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What girl was interested in Jondalar?
(a) Laliana.
(b) Lalina.
(c) Lanalia.
(d) Lalena.

3. Who of the Hadumai group could speak Zelandonii?
(a) Tamen.
(b) Jaren.
(c) Noria.
(d) Haduma.

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

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

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

7. What would make sure that her meat wouldn't be disturbed?
(a) The sound of them knocking the drying racks over.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) The foal responses.

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

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

10. What sign(s) did Ayla find from her totem?
(a) A bone with cave lion teeth marks.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) A clear quartz crystal.
(d) Both of these.

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

12. What was the problem with fording the channels?
(a) Her possessions.
(b) She was not a strong swimmer.
(c) She had a fear of water.
(d) All of these.

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

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

15. What do the Shamudoi hunt?
(a) Mountain goats.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Chamois.
(d) Bears.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the young, vivacious woman that Jondalar was interested in?

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

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

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

5. What is the only thing Ayla lacked in the valley?

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