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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Ayla want one of the older reindeer?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Their hides were scarred.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Their meat was tough.

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

3. What made the young horse come to Ayla?
(a) A finger snap.
(b) A click.
(c) A whistle.
(d) A warble.

4. What was the tree called that was adorned with offerings?
(a) The Blessing Tree.
(b) The Mother Tree.
(c) The Mating Tree.
(d) The Wishing Tree.

5. What animal had injured Thonolan?
(a) A mammoth.
(b) A bear.
(c) A rhino.
(d) A cave lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ayla hesitate at the invoking of the Clan spirits?

2. Who was the young woman Jondalar had been talking to?

3. Who antagonizes the flatheads?

4. What was determined to be the real reason Jondalar was interested in boat making?

5. In what direction was the rhino nearly blind?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Thonolan want to give up?

2. What advantages did Ayla have that other clan women did not?

3. What stroke of innovation allowed Ayla to bring down a horse on her own?

4. What was Jondalar so worried about regarding Thonolan's approach of the rhino?

5. Why was Darvo so happy when Thonolan had decided to mate Jetamio and stay?

6. Who was Iza and what had she told Ayla on the night that she died?

7. What things led Jondalar to believe the flatheads were closer to human than it had been rumored?

8. What animal had used the cave before Ayla, and how did she know? How did she react to this knowledge?

9. Why didn't Ayla get mad when Whinney ran and dumped all her things?

10. What struck Ayla as wrong, and how did she feel when she had figured it out?

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