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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ayla's first observation regarding the wild cave lion cubs?
(a) How much more energetic they were than Baby.
(b) How much smaller they were than Baby.
(c) How little exercise they got in the wild.
(d) How much less playful they were.

2. What hadn't Ayla done?
(a) Let herself down.
(b) None of these.
(c) Proven Droog to be an inept tool maker.
(d) Let the Clan down.

3. On what did survival depend?
(a) All of these.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Equipment.
(d) Faith.

4. What did Jondalar have to prove to himself before he would mate Serenio?
(a) That he could be Sharamudoi, both Ramudoi and Shamudoi.
(b) That he would dedicate his life to her.
(c) That he could make bilberry wine like Jetamio.
(d) That he could be the best flint knapper.

5. What was Ayla's first effort to communicate, and what was the first thing she managed to communicate?
(a) Where he was from.
(b) Her desire to know his name.
(c) Her name.
(d) Where she had come from.

6. What rule must never be forgotten?
(a) Never turn your back on the Mother.
(b) Always keep a tool pouch close by.
(c) Never let a boat take on too much water.
(d) Never turn your back on the Sister.

7. What had Jondalar thought the Clan was?
(a) All of these.
(b) A people with different customs.
(c) A spiritual people.
(d) A strange group of Zelandoni.

8. How did Ayla move according to Jondalar?
(a) As though she didn't want him to see her.
(b) As though she had to say something embarrassing.
(c) As though she was trying to tell him something.
(d) As though she didn't like him.

9. What offer does Ayla make regarding the colt?
(a) The potential to train him.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) The ability to name him.
(d) Both of these.

10. When there was less weight the boat was ______ to handle.
(a) Easier.
(b) The same.
(c) Unpredictable.
(d) Harder.

11. What did cave lions do during the summer?
(a) Grow restless.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Look for a mate.
(d) Hunt.

12. What did Jondalar call the lion with elongated canines?
(a) None of these.
(b) A dirk toothed tiger.
(c) A saber toothed tiger.
(d) A long toothed tiger.

13. How many eggs were in the ptarmigan nest?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

14. What did Jondalar wish?
(a) His memory was as good as Ayla's.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) He could go outside.

15. What side of the Mother is Jondalar supposed to keep to?
(a) The right, left, center left part of the Mother.
(b) The right.
(c) The left.
(d) The center.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did Jondalar surprise Ayla, and enjoy the surprise he had given her?

2. How did Ayla feel when Jondalar relieved himself?

3. How did Ayla kill the bison?

4. What had the lionesses brought down?

5. Whose dung did Baby like best?

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