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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How tall is the woman leading the women?
(a) Four and a half feet
(b) Five and a half feet
(c) Three and a half feet
(d) Six and a half feet

2. What most influences the leader to let Iza help the girl?
(a) Fear of upsetting his sibling
(b) Fear of angering the spirits and ruining the cave ceremony
(c) Iza's request to help the girl
(d) His opinion that the girl will probably die anyway

3. What skill does Ayla have already that helps her learn to track animals?
(a) She knows how to make tools from flint.
(b) She observes small details that differentiate plants for medicinal use.
(c) She walks quietly and stealthily to avoid attracting attention.
(d) She is demure and docile towards the men.

4. What do the older men use to hunt small animals?
(a) Guns
(b) A sling
(c) Bows and arrows
(d) Stones

5. What happens once she leaves the cave?
(a) She meets people.
(b) The lion returns and chases her back into the cave.
(c) She is afraid of the carrion birds.
(d) She passes out.

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

7. What happens to convince the clan to start allowing Ayla to help Iza practice medicine?
(a) She treats Creb for a bad burn.
(b) She treats Zoug for a vicious beating from Broud.
(c) She helps Iza remove Creb's rotten tooth.
(d) She helps deliver Ovra's premature baby.

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

9. What is Broud's totem?
(a) Cave Bear
(b) Wooly Mammoth
(c) Cave Lion
(d) Wooly Rhinoceros

10. What does Ayla bring back to the cave?
(a) An abandoned baby wolf
(b) A wounded rabbit
(c) A special fossil
(d) A wounded cave lion

11. How do the clan members feel about Broud's abuse toward Ayla?
(a) Most believe the strange girl deserve the harsh treatment because of her differences.
(b) Most believe it is a test from Ayla's totem.
(c) Few believe that Broud goes far enough in her punishment of her insolence.
(d) Few approve of the lengths to which Broud uses to keep her in line

12. Why does Ayla go out alone?
(a) To get away from the clan
(b) To collect cherry bark for Iza
(c) To forage for food
(d) To spy on the men

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

14. What kind of shelter does the girl's family have?
(a) A wood frame house
(b) A cave
(c) A hide-covered lean-to
(d) A mud-covered hut

15. How old is the young girl at the beginning of the book?
(a) Six
(b) Three
(c) Five
(d) Four

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Iza think is a usually a problem for women delivering babies?

2. How does Ayla act towards Broud after the beating?

3. Who is the Clan's spiritual leader?

4. Why does Oga stop being friends with Ayla?

5. What drives her to leave?

(see the answer keys)

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