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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Creb's last ceremony?
(a) The ceremony to curse Ayla with death
(b) The ceremony to mate Ayla and Broud
(c) The ceremony to make Goov mog-ur and Broud leader
(d) The ceremony to bury Zoug

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

3. What does Ayla become obsessed with while playing the bowl drum rhythms?
(a) She worries that Iza has died.
(b) She worries that Iza's ancient bowl is lost.
(c) She worries that she is too tall and ugly.
(d) She worries what has become of Durc.

4. Who reminds Brun that Ayla is lucky?
(a) Creb
(b) Zoug
(c) Goov
(d) Droog

5. What do the men decide about Ayla's fate?
(a) They decide to let her live and become a hunter.
(b) They decide to let her live, but she can never touch the sling again.
(c) They decide to condemn her with death.
(d) The vote is tied and up to Brun, who wants to think about it until morning.

6. What game do Ayla and Durc play together?
(a) A game of making sounds
(b) A game of throwing spears
(c) A game of pretending they are mates
(d) A game of stacking rocks

7. What does the ceremony make Ayla?
(a) An equal with the men
(b) The new mog-ur
(c) The Woman Who Hunts
(d) Servant to the Ancient Spirits

8. Why does Vond come to Brun's clan?
(a) He wants to get advice and medicine for his sick mother.
(b) He wants to tell Brun his clan moved to a new cave.
(c) He wants to mate Ayla.
(d) He wants to tell Ayla that the man she saved at the Clan Gathering was walking again.

9. What does Ayla do during the cave bear ceremony?
(a) She uses her sling on the bear.
(b) She rushes into the battle to apply a tourniquet to a wounded hunter.
(c) She picks up a spear to help kill the bear.
(d) She mourns for the fallen hunter.

10. Who from Brun's clan is chosen for the Cave Bear Ceremony?
(a) Droog
(b) Broud
(c) Vorn
(d) Goov

11. Why does Uba have to spend a few days alone?
(a) She has a temporary death curse for touching Ayla's sling.
(b) She has a contagious illness.
(c) She must pass the solitude test to become medicine woman.
(d) She has become a woman.

12. When Brun finds Ayla, what is wrong with her?
(a) She has broken her arm.
(b) She has gotten a consumptive lung disease.
(c) She has an infection from failing to nurse her baby.
(d) She has been attacked by a lynx.

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

14. What happens at the end of the curse?
(a) The men find Ayla's secret cave.
(b) Ayla kills a deer for food and its skin.
(c) Uba finds Ayla's secret cave.
(d) A blizzard keeps Ayla in the cave.

15. What happens to help reconcile Ayla and Creb?
(a) Durc gets hurt.
(b) Durc uses his word for Mama in front of Creb.
(c) Ayla has her nightmare about the earthquake.
(d) Ayla has her nightmare about the cave lion attack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Ayla secretly grateful to Broud?

2. What instruction does Ayla get during her womanhood curse?

3. Why does Oda approach Ayla?

4. How long does Brun decide to make the death curse?

5. What does Ayla do that astonishes the other clans?

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