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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What landmark does Laduni tell Jondalar and Thonolan to look for?

2. What was Creb's favorite food?

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

4. What smell brought an instinctive fear to the horses?

5. What did Jondalar make for Thonolan after he was gored?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What things did Ayla need to survive the winter?

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

10. What is the difference between Thonolan and Jondalar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Jondalar's gradual change in perception regarding the flatheads. What likely finished the transitional process between animals to humans in Jondalar's mind, and what outside source responsible for this shift? What does this change in perception foreshadow what will occur later on?

Essay Topic 2

Consider Ayla's fears regarding the Others. Are her fears well founded? Why or why not? What is unlikely to happen to Ayla that the Clan often became the victims of?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the relationships between Clan and Others. How does each pursue the other? Provide reasons for this tension. How do people today still struggle with similar issues, and why?

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