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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) He was interested in the tools.
(b) All of these.
(c) He was interested in the buoyancy of the boats.
(d) He was interested in learning to make a boat.

2. What had happened between Thonolan and Jetamio?
(a) All of these.
(b) They had formed a close friendship.
(c) They had formed a special bond.
(d) They had fallen in love.

3. Into what shape had she shaped the snow pile?
(a) Iza's face.
(b) Brun's face.
(c) An igloo.
(d) Creb's face.

4. What did the fossil of the gastropod represent to her?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Her totem's sanctioning of her hunting.
(c) Her totem's promise that Durc would be unharmed.
(d) None of these.

5. What color was the soil at the edge of the water?
(a) Brown.
(b) Red.
(c) Grey.
(d) Brown-red.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was reminiscent of an earthquake to Ayla?

2. What did the first stones from Ayla's sling show the hyenas?

3. What did Thonolan perceive the pretty girl to be?

4. What was Creb's favorite food?

5. What festival was held when the moon was new in the Clan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the difference in the Shamudoi and the Ramudoi specialties when it came to hunting?

2. What idea struck Ayla?

3. Why did Ayla take in the baby horse?

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

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

6. Why did Jondalar take special attention in making sure young women were Pleasured in their First Rites?

7. What is the Malaise?

8. Why did Thonolan want to give up?

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

10. Why were the gifts from others not really anonymous?

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