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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Creb begin the ceremony?
(a) By taking Ayla in the special place the men usually have ceremonies
(b) By having Ayla make a drink from datura
(c) By invoking the ancient female spirits
(d) By invoking the totems to explain his attempts to make the Cave Lion happy

2. How does Ayla come out of her depression?
(a) She starts planning for the Clan Gathering.
(b) She realizes she is going to have a baby.
(c) She starts hunting and collecting medicinal plants again.
(d) She knows that Broud can do nothing else to her.

3. Who dies in the earthquake?
(a) Durc
(b) Brun
(c) Creb
(d) Uba

4. What does Uba deliver?
(a) A deformed baby missing arms and legs
(b) A heathy baby boy
(c) A healty baby girl
(d) A deformed, stillborn set of conjoined twins

5. What is wrong with the drink Ayla makes?
(a) It is the wrong color.
(b) It is too weak.
(c) It is too strong.
(d) It is not enough for the ten mog-urs.

6. What does Iza tell Creb about Ayla?
(a) Ayla is lost.
(b) Ayla is hiding.
(c) Ayla is burying the baby.
(d) Ayla is weak from the birth and not expected to live.

7. What fear encourages Ayla to keep going during her difficult delivery?
(a) She fears the baby will be deformed.
(b) She fears that she will have to hunt for the baby herself.
(c) She fears that Iza and Creb will not love her anymore.
(d) She fears the baby will die and she will never have another one.

8. How does Ayla keep track of the time during her curse?
(a) She collects bones from the animals she kills.
(b) She counts the days on her fingers.
(c) She draws pictures of the phases of the moon on her cave wall.
(d) She makes a notch in a stick every night.

9. What instruction does Ayla get during her womanhood curse?
(a) Where to go when Broud becomes leader
(b) Ways to avoid men who might want to pester her
(c) Everything she needs to know about being a woman
(d) Who she should mate

10. What does Creb realize when watching Durc, who is almost walking now?
(a) He realizes that Durc's deformity will make him retarded.
(b) He realizes that Durc will not be able to hunt.
(c) He realizes that Durc is a mixture of the clan's and Others' spirits.
(d) He realizes that Durc is the future of the clan.

11. 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 Ayla that the man she saved at the Clan Gathering was walking again.
(c) He wants to tell Brun his clan moved to a new cave.
(d) He wants to mate Ayla.

12. Who does Ayla ask to protect Durc before she goes?
(a) Uba
(b) Brun
(c) Ebra
(d) Oga

13. What kind of medicine does Iza suggest to Ayla?
(a) An herb to help Ayla keep the baby
(b) An herb to make her lose the baby
(c) An herb to strengthen her bones during pregnancy
(d) An herb to make her more attractive to gain a mate

14. Who argues with Broud about Ayla's behavior?
(a) Zoug
(b) Droog
(c) Creb
(d) Goov

15. What does Iza tell Ayla before she dies?
(a) That she must take care of Uba for her
(b) That she is right about her ideas of how Durc is a mixture spirits
(c) That she must leave and find her own people
(d) That she must be kind to Broud, even though he hates her

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in the clan was also born deformed and allowed to live?

2. What is Creb's last ceremony?

3. Why does Oda approach Ayla?

4. Who convinces Ayla to leave the cave after she is almost not admitted?

5. Why does Uba have to spend a few days alone?

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