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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused the cave lion to back into Ayla's lap?
(a) The nicker of the horse.
(b) The appearance of the huge horse.
(c) The cub didn't back into Ayla's lap.
(d) The loud sound of Whinney's hooves.

2. Where did Jondalar attempt to convince Thonolan to go following Jetamio's death?
(a) Home.
(b) North.
(c) East towards the mouth of the Great Mother river.
(d) West.

3. Why did Jondalar's voice frustrate Ayla?
(a) She found his voice annoying and repetitive.
(b) She thought that instinctively she should understand him but she didn't.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

4. What was Thonolan's drive to keep moving tainted with?
(a) Desperation.
(b) All of these.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Loneliness.

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

6. What feelings did Ayla get while being unencumbered?
(a) An unaccustomed sense of freedom.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) An unaccountable sense of frustration.
(d) Both of these.

7. What did Ayla think when Jondalar removed his hand from her?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) That she was too ugly to relieve his needs with her.
(c) Both of these.
(d) That she was doing something wrong.

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

9. How did Ayla feel when Jondalar relieved himself?
(a) Ashamed.
(b) Humiliated.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

10. What did Jondalar think of naming the colt?
(a) Racer.
(b) Wind runner.
(c) Midnight.
(d) None of these.

11. How did Ayla kill the bison?
(a) None of these.
(b) By stabbing it with a spear Jondalar had made for her.
(c) By shooting it in the eye with her spear thrower.
(d) By stabbing it with a Clan spear.

12. What does Ayla ask Jondalar if he would like to try?
(a) Training the colt.
(b) Using her spear.
(c) Riding Whinney.
(d) Using her sling.

13. What was the first animal Baby killed?
(a) A deer.
(b) A grouse.
(c) A ptarmigan.
(d) A hare.

14. How did Jondalar notice Ayla handle the pouch around her neck?
(a) As he would hold a donii.
(b) With reverence.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

15. What had disrupted Whinney's herd?
(a) The shift in barometric pressure.
(b) The untimely death of the stallion.
(c) All of these.
(d) The weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Whinney nervous?

2. Why did Jondalar believe what Ayla said regarding the flatheads?

3. What, more than ever, made Jondalar suspect Ayla was a donii?

4. What stung Jondalar?

5. What did Jondalar notice in the back of the cave?

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