View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What offer does Ayla make regarding the colt?
(a) The potential to train him.
(b) The ability to name him.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

2. What was Thonolan's drive to keep moving tainted with?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Desperation.
(c) All of these.
(d) Sorrow.

3. What couldn't Jondalar match?
(a) All of these.
(b) Ayla's strength.
(c) Ayla's accuracy.
(d) Ayla's comfort with the weapon.

4. Why did Jondalar give away half the fish?
(a) The flathead had asked for it, and had saved his life.
(b) He wanted to share the bounty.
(c) He felt that the woman should have some food too.
(d) He wanted to repay the flathead for his kindness.

5. What did Jondalar call Ayla's son?
(a) A filthy hyena.
(b) An abomination of mixed spirits.
(c) A horrible affront to the Mother.
(d) All of these

6. How did Ayla express gratitude for the awl?
(a) By saying "thank you".
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) By bowing her head in the Clan way.

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

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

9. How did Jondalar make Ayla feel?
(a) Helpless.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Positively little.
(d) Tiny.

10. What surprised Jondalar regarding flatheads?
(a) All of these.
(b) They used fire.
(c) They were compassionate.
(d) They could communicate.

11. What did Ayla think when Jondalar removed his hand from her?
(a) Both of these.
(b) That she was too ugly to relieve his needs with her.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) That she was doing something wrong.

12. Who had been killed in an earthquake?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Ayla's mother.
(c) Creb.
(d) Neither of these.

13. What incident jolted Ayla into speech?
(a) Her loneliness.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) The nightmare.

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

15. What hadn't Ayla done?
(a) Let the Clan down.
(b) Let herself down.
(c) None of these.
(d) Proven Droog to be an inept tool maker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What holds a part of Ayla's spirit?

2. Whose dung did Baby like best?

3. What caused the cave lion to back into Ayla's lap?

4. What did the hyena smell like?

5. What, more than ever, made Jondalar suspect Ayla was a donii?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 458 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample