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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Zolena no more?
(a) She had died.
(b) She had gone to another cave.
(c) She had left on a Journey and never come back.
(d) She had become First Among Those Who Serve.

2. What did Thonolan have?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) A heart full of grief.
(c) A certainty he would never find someone else to love.
(d) A fatalistic certainty he was going to die.

3. What caused the cave lion to back into Ayla's lap?
(a) The cub didn't back into Ayla's lap.
(b) The loud sound of Whinney's hooves.
(c) The appearance of the huge horse.
(d) The nicker of the horse.

4. What was the extent of the cub's injuries?
(a) None of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Head wound.
(d) Broken rib.

5. What had Jondalar thought the Clan was?
(a) A strange group of Zelandoni.
(b) All of these.
(c) A people with different customs.
(d) A spiritual people.

6. What was Ayla's first observation regarding the wild cave lion cubs?
(a) How much smaller they were than Baby.
(b) How much less playful they were.
(c) How much more energetic they were than Baby.
(d) How little exercise they got in the wild.

7. What did Ayla use that wasn't a part of Jondalar's kit?
(a) All of these.
(b) A foot bone of a mammoth.
(c) A hammer stone.
(d) An antler chisel.

8. What was the texture of Jondalar's face?
(a) Like coarse wood.
(b) Like a lion's tongue.
(c) Like the horse's tongue.
(d) Like sand.

9. What feelings did Ayla get while being unencumbered?
(a) An unaccountable sense of frustration.
(b) An unaccustomed sense of freedom.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

10. What, more than ever, made Jondalar suspect Ayla was a donii?
(a) When Ayla rode Baby.
(b) When Ayla midwifed Whinney.
(c) When Baby returned and she had control over him.
(d) When Ayla called birds to her hands.

11. How many eggs were in the ptarmigan nest?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Eight.

12. What was the first animal Baby killed?
(a) A hare.
(b) A ptarmigan.
(c) A grouse.
(d) A deer.

13. What had Baby never known that wild cubs had?
(a) Violence.
(b) Discipline.
(c) All of these.
(d) Hunger.

14. In what way did Jondalar surprise Ayla, and enjoy the surprise he had given her?
(a) He made her tea.
(b) He prepared a skin.
(c) All of these.
(d) He cooked for her.

15. What does Jondalar want to do with Ayla?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Give her First Rites.
(c) Kiss her.
(d) Neither of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hadn't Ayla done?

2. What couldn't Jondalar match?

3. What was chamomile for?

4. What had the lionesses brought down?

5. What offer does Ayla make regarding the colt?

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