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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the clan members differ from the girl?
(a) They have a short, thick neck that supports their long, large flat heads.
(b) They have slight but powerful muscles.
(c) They have long, thin bones that make them tall and thin.
(d) They have tall, long foreheads with lots of blond hair.

2. Why does another lion chase the girl?
(a) The small girl is a perfect meal for the lions.
(b) The mother lion wants weak prey for her cubs to learn to kill.
(c) The girl ventures too close to the newborn lion cubs.
(d) The lion's kill is threatened.

3. How does Ayla act towards Broud after the beating?
(a) She treats him with earned respect.
(b) She laughs at him.
(c) She scurries in fear to meet his every need.
(d) She begins a campaign of petty insolence.

4. What had Brun planned to do to with Iza before she rescued Ayla?
(a) Have the Mog-ur provide for her
(b) Give her to Grod
(c) Take her and her baby to his own hearth
(d) Give her to Broud

5. Why does Iza take Ayla to the other women?
(a) Brun does not want Iza to get too attached to the child of the Others.
(b) She is worried Ayla will not be accepted.
(c) She must see the Mog-ur to prepare for the ceremony.
(d) She must collect the sacred roots for the ceremony.

6. What does Ayla remember Zoug saying about killing animals that are meat eaters?
(a) Meat eaters are the best food for winter.
(b) It is better to kill them with a sling because you do not have to get so close.
(c) If you miss a meat eater with the sling, you can always follow up with a spear thrust.
(d) Animals like a lynx or larger are easy to kill with a sling.

7. Why does Iza decide to teach Ayla medicine?
(a) She believes that Ayla will be too ugly to find a mate, so she needs status in her own right.
(b) She fears that her medicine line will die with her.
(c) She fears that she will not be able to take care of Creb much longer.
(d) She wants revenge on her cruel former mate.

8. What men stay behind to protect the cave?
(a) Grod and Brun
(b) Creb and Goov
(c) Zoug and Dorv
(d) Broud and Vorn

9. What must happen for Iza to stay at Creb's hearth?
(a) The spirits must give a sign at the cave ceremony.
(b) Her baby must be a girl.
(c) The hunt must be successful.
(d) Brun must agree.

10. Why does Droog allow Ayla to watch him make the tools for the mammoth hunt?
(a) He wants to spite Broud, whose comments about old men have made Droog angry.
(b) He believes her presence will bring him luck.
(c) Creb suggests to him that she would make Droog a good mate.
(d) He wants her to be available to get him water if he needs it.

11. Why does Brun decide to hunt mammoth, even though it is a risky undertaking?
(a) He wants to present mammoth gifts to the Clan Gathering host.
(b) He wants to stockpile food for the winter following the Clan Gathering.
(c) His lucky clan can afford the luxury of taking some time off to hunt mammoth.
(d) His hunters spy mammoth traveling farther south than usual.

12. What does Iza use for a medicine bag?
(a) An otter hide
(b) A cow's stomach
(c) A pliable hide
(d) A bag made from flax fibers

13. What does Ayla find when she is looking for a place to practice her sling skills?
(a) An abandoned baby
(b) A small cave
(c) Men of the Others
(d) A large supply of fresh flint

14. Why does Brun reprimand Broud in the clearing?
(a) For being lazy
(b) For messing up the ceremony
(c) For lashing out at Zoug in anger
(d) For trying to teach Vorn to use the sling

15. What does Creb find in the cave that seals the Clan's acceptance of the space as their new home?
(a) Roe deer bones
(b) A spring of clean water
(c) Hyena droppings
(d) The skull of the cave bear

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Broud offer to make Vorn?

2. What does Ayla want while the clan continues traveling?

3. Who is the leader of the Clan?

4. What is the lioness stalking when the girl gets too close?

5. Why does Ayla take Uba to Oga for nursing?

(see the answer keys)

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