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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 animal does the chamois resemble?
(a) The big horned sheep.
(b) The ibex.
(c) All of these.
(d) The mountain goat.

2. How did Ayla feel when Jondalar relieved himself?
(a) Angry.
(b) Humiliated.
(c) Sad.
(d) Ashamed.

3. How many eggs were in the ptarmigan nest?
(a) Eight.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.

4. What does Jondalar promise Ayla?
(a) That he will leave her alone.
(b) That he won't bother her again.
(c) That he won't go after her again.
(d) That he won't touch her again.

5. What did Ayla use that wasn't a part of Jondalar's kit?
(a) All of these.
(b) A foot bone of a mammoth.
(c) A hammer stone.
(d) An antler chisel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jondalar wish?

2. When there was less weight the boat was ______ to handle.

3. What made Whinney nervous?

4. How did Ayla kill the bison?

5. At what point in the year did Baby's absences become longer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Ayla's cave seem more lonely at this point than when she had first made it her home?

2. What did Jondalar say about Ayla's donii?

3. What major problem in communication occurred in Chapter 23?

4. What did the Clan consider as improper and why did Ayla question it? To what conclusion did Ayla come regarding this?

5. What language did Jondalar teach Ayla, and what was the problem with it?

6. Why did Ayla become so upset?

7. What innovation did Ayla make since Whinney had returned and what was the reason for this innovation?

8. Why wouldn't Jondalar stop loving Ayla?

9. What argument did Ayla make for the people of the Clan not being animals?

10. Why had Ayla been embarrassed?

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