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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would make sure that her meat wouldn't be disturbed?
(a) The foal responses.
(b) The sound of them knocking the drying racks over.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

2. What kind of wine did Jetamio specialize in making?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Rose.
(d) Bilberry.

3. What sign(s) did Ayla find from her totem?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) A bone with cave lion teeth marks.
(d) A clear quartz crystal.

4. Who was Jondalar supposed to mate at the Summer Meeting?
(a) Malona.
(b) Marona.
(c) Malinda.
(d) Marina.

5. What was the great sturgeon called?
(a) Grandmother.
(b) Haduma.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

6. What does Jondalar wish the healer would let him do?
(a) Stay with his brother.
(b) Help the healer.
(c) Help his brother.
(d) Ask the zelandoni how they had known to come.

7. What was/is Ayla's totem?
(a) A lynx.
(b) A bear.
(c) A cave lion.
(d) A eagle.

8. Who was Iza?
(a) The only mother Ayla could remember.
(b) The mate of Broud.
(c) She was the only person Ayla trusted.
(d) The only friend Ayla had.

9. What advantage did Ayla have over other Clan women?
(a) None of these.
(b) She was adaptable.
(c) She was a medicine woman.
(d) She could hunt.

10. What innovation allowed Ayla to move the deer and her newest acquisition?
(a) The wheel.
(b) None of these.
(c) Two spears dragging instead of the dead weight of the carcass.
(d) A cart.

11. What must Thonolan do before he can mate Jetamio?
(a) Win her heart through a feat of strength.
(b) Propose to her.
(c) Finish the boat he started on.
(d) All of these.

12. Why didn't Ayla want one of the older reindeer?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Their meat was tough.
(d) Their hides were scarred.

13. When did Ayla realize that Whinney had gone where Ayla wanted her to go?
(a) None of these.
(b) When she got Whinney to jump a creek.
(c) When she flushed a giant hamster.
(d) When she flushed a ptarmigan.

14. What was reminiscent of an earthquake to Ayla?
(a) Thunder.
(b) None of these.
(c) The crack of a tree falling and hitting the ground.
(d) Lightning.

15. What stone, when combined with flint, produced a spark?
(a) Iron pyrite.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Quartz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does Thonolan miss?

2. What landmark does Laduni tell Jondalar and Thonolan to look for?

3. What did the hyena manage to make off with?

4. Why can't Jondalar mate Joplaya?

5. What large animal did Ayla decide to hunt?

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