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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 did Ayla continue making mashes for the horse even when she no longer needed them?
(a) The horse begged for them.
(b) All of these.
(c) The horse wouldn't eat the other stuff.
(d) The horse liked them.

2. What color does Thonolan miss?
(a) Orange.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

3. What is the Great Mother River called today?
(a) Thames.
(b) The Nile.
(c) The Danube.
(d) The Sister.

4. What was the problem with fording the channels?
(a) She had a fear of water.
(b) All of these.
(c) Her possessions.
(d) She was not a strong swimmer.

5. What smell brought an instinctive fear to the horses?
(a) Humans.
(b) Smoke.
(c) All of these.
(d) Sweat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made the young horse come to Ayla?

2. What advantage did Ayla have over other Clan women?

3. What thickens the stew that Tholie brought with her?

4. What is the phrase that people say?

5. When did Ayla realize that Whinney had gone where Ayla wanted her to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the old woman throw on the ground, and how did Jondalar react to it?

2. What events led to Ayla making fire with flint and iron pyrite?

3. Why did Thonolan want to give up?

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

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

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

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

8. What kind of relationship did Jondalar and Jetamio start out with? What did it deepen into and how?

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

10. Why had Jondalar inadvertently hurt Radonio?

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