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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What incident jolted Ayla into speech?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) The nightmare.
(c) Her loneliness.
(d) Both of these.
2. What was the extent of the cub's injuries?
(a) Head wound.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Broken rib.
(d) None of these.
3. Why doesn't a donii usually have a face?
(a) The Mother isn't invited into the figurine when there is a face.
(b) The face of the Mother is unknowable.
(c) All of these.
(d) The face of a donii attracts the spirit.
4. What holds a part of Ayla's spirit?
(a) Ayla's amulet.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) The donii Jondalar carved.
5. Where did Jondalar attempt to convince Thonolan to go following Jetamio's death?
(a) North.
(b) West.
(c) Home.
(d) East towards the mouth of the Great Mother river.
6. Why had Whinney kicked Baby?
(a) Baby bit her.
(b) All of these.
(c) Baby played too rough with her.
(d) She had gone into heat.
7. What did Jondalar's dream tell him?
(a) That Ayla united the flatheads and the Others.
(b) That flatheads were children of the Mother too.
(c) That Ayla wasn't to be vilified for her past.
(d) That Ayla was the beginning of everything right.
8. What was Ayla's first effort to communicate, and what was the first thing she managed to communicate?
(a) Where he was from.
(b) Her name.
(c) Her desire to know his name.
(d) Where she had come from.
9. What did Jondalar have to prove to himself before he would mate Serenio?
(a) That he could make bilberry wine like Jetamio.
(b) That he could be Sharamudoi, both Ramudoi and Shamudoi.
(c) That he would dedicate his life to her.
(d) That he could be the best flint knapper.
10. What surprised Jondalar regarding flatheads?
(a) They were compassionate.
(b) All of these.
(c) They used fire.
(d) They could communicate.
11. How did Ayla kill the bison?
(a) By shooting it in the eye with her spear thrower.
(b) By stabbing it with a spear Jondalar had made for her.
(c) By stabbing it with a Clan spear.
(d) None of these.
12. What was Ayla sure about regarding the man in her dream?
(a) He had brown hair.
(b) He was handsome.
(c) He had yellow hair.
(d) He had black hair.
13. What did Jondalar tell himself regarding Ayla?
(a) She was foregoing Pleasures.
(b) All of these.
(c) She had undertaken a vow of silence.
(d) She was a Zelandoni living alone to gain more understanding about herself.
14. What did Thonolan have?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) A certainty he would never find someone else to love.
(c) A heart full of grief.
(d) A fatalistic certainty he was going to die.
15. How did Jondalar feel about Serenio?
(a) She meant nothing to him but a warm bed and a kept house.
(b) She meant more to him than any other woman he had known.
(c) She was everything to him and he loved her dearly.
(d) She was the epitome of womanhood to him.
Short Answer Questions
1. What question does Ayla ask of Jondalar once he is done making the blades?
2. What did a donii with a likeness do?
3. What did Jondalar call the lion with elongated canines?
4. Why did Jondalar's voice frustrate Ayla?
5. What was chamomile for?
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