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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. What was determined to be the real reason Jondalar was interested in boat making?
(a) All of these.
(b) He was interested in the buoyancy of the boats.
(c) He was interested in the tools.
(d) He was interested in learning to make a boat.

2. What large animal did Ayla decide to hunt?
(a) A horse.
(b) An auroch.
(c) A mammoth.
(d) A woolly rhinoceros.

3. Where did Jondalar put one of the tunics?
(a) High in a tree.
(b) He burnt it.
(c) He buried it.
(d) He left it on a hillside.

4. What advantage did Ayla have over other Clan women?
(a) None of these.
(b) She was a medicine woman.
(c) She could hunt.
(d) She was adaptable.

5. What would make sure that her meat wouldn't be disturbed?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) The sound of them knocking the drying racks over.
(c) The foal responses.
(d) Both of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Ayla grateful for the height of her cave?

2. What girl was interested in Jondalar?

3. Why can't Jondalar mate Joplaya?

4. What kind of tree isn't mentioned for lance making?

5. How long had the boat turned out to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was there always someone present when a young woman lost her virginity, or rather, had her First Rites?

2. What information did Creb give Ayla on signs from her totem?

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

4. What is the difference between Thonolan and Jondalar?

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

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

7. What is the Malaise?

8. What transformation did Jetamio undergo when she smiled, and what impression did Jondalar get from that smile?

9. In what ways did Whinney help Ayla accomplish the reindeer hunt?

10. Why did Jondalar panic in regard to the blood-soaked tunic?

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