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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ayla's punishment for her defiance?
(a) She is not allowed to go to the Clan Gathering.
(b) The woman's curse - isolation to Creb's hearth for one moon
(c) She is never allowed to hunt again.
(d) The full death curse for one moon

2. What does Ayla decide to do with her sling while on the mammoth hunt trip?
(a) Wear it as a headband
(b) Leave it at her secret cave
(c) Leave it at the bottom of her carrying basket
(d) Hide it deep in the folds of her wrap

3. Why does Iza stop working while the women are winnowing grain?
(a) She goes into labor.
(b) Creb wants her to save her energy for a ceremony.
(c) She must tend to a sick child.
(d) She is dying.

4. Where does the clan allow gestures of affection?
(a) In the boundaries of the fire only
(b) Nowhere
(c) Anywhere
(d) Only outside the cave

5. Why does Creb want Brun to reconsider his decision?
(a) Creb worries that cursing Ayla will anger the spirits.
(b) Creb worries that they will be without a medicine woman soon if Ayla dies.
(c) Creb is deformed and Ayla's role model.
(d) Creb argues that Ayla will take pieces of Brac's and Ona's spirit with her if she dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens while the women are preparing the mammoth for the journey home?

2. What does Ayla do that reveals her secret skill?

3. Why does Brun decide to hunt mammoth, even though it is a risky undertaking?

4. Why does Oga stop being friends with Ayla?

5. How does Broud accept the baby?

(see the answer key)

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