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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had become a habit for Ayla in the mornings?
(a) Washing her hair.
(b) Washing her wrap.
(c) Checking the horses.
(d) Going for a swim.

2. What was the only check to the Sister?
(a) A waterfall.
(b) A lake.
(c) A Marsh.
(d) The Mother.

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

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

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

6. What did Jondalar give Noria?
(a) His heart.
(b) His donii.
(c) A fur he had prepared for her.
(d) His tunic.

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

8. Who had almost drowned and had been rescued by Ayla?
(a) Ona.
(b) Uba.
(c) Ika.
(d) Oma.

9. What had caused Ayla to forget the intense cold of the steppes?
(a) A herd of reindeer.
(b) A herd of Saiga antelope.
(c) A herd of mammoth.
(d) A herd of woolly rhinoceros.

10. Who antagonizes the flatheads?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Chalomi.
(c) Charoli.
(d) Cartman.

11. 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 the buoyancy of the boats.
(c) He was interested in learning to make a boat.
(d) All of these.

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

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

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

15. What thickens the stew that Tholie brought with her?
(a) Tubers.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Flour.
(d) Seaweed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Ayla continue making mashes for the horse even when she no longer needed them?

3. What was the problem with fording the channels?

4. Where did Jondalar put one of the tunics?

5. What was Ayla's hide tent made of?

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