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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Whinney nervous?
(a) None of these.
(b) The smell of blood within the cave.
(c) The smell of the strange man in the cave.
(d) Ayla's attention elsewhere.

2. How did Jondalar feel about Serenio?
(a) She was the epitome of womanhood to him.
(b) She meant more to him than any other woman he had known.
(c) She meant nothing to him but a warm bed and a kept house.
(d) She was everything to him and he loved her dearly.

3. What had Jondalar forgotten he had lost?
(a) His tool belt.
(b) His fire making set.
(c) His knife.
(d) His hooks.

4. How old was Thonolan at his matrimonial?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Fifteen.

5. 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.

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

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

8. On what did survival depend?
(a) All of these.
(b) Faith.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Equipment.

9. What did Jondalar call the lion with elongated canines?
(a) A long toothed tiger.
(b) A dirk toothed tiger.
(c) None of these.
(d) A saber toothed tiger.

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

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

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

13. What was chamomile for?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) A digestive aid.
(c) Both of these.
(d) A mild wash for wounds.

14. Who had come up the mountain to fetch Thonolan?
(a) Jetamio.
(b) Shamud.
(c) Serenio.
(d) Tholie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Pleasure that Ayla got from Broud?

2. What had the lionesses brought down?

3. What did Jondalar call Ayla's son?

4. What rule must never be forgotten?

5. How did she distinguish plants?

(see the answer keys)

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