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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Jondalar feel about Serenio?
(a) She was everything to him and he loved her dearly.
(b) She meant nothing to him but a warm bed and a kept house.
(c) She was the epitome of womanhood to him.
(d) She meant more to him than any other woman he had known.

2. What had Baby never known that wild cubs had?
(a) All of these.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Violence.
(d) Discipline.

3. Who had come up the mountain to fetch Thonolan?
(a) Serenio.
(b) Tholie.
(c) Shamud.
(d) Jetamio.

4. What did Jondalar realize Ayla was trying to ask of him?
(a) How he came to her valley.
(b) Where he had come from.
(c) How to speak.
(d) Whether or not he liked her.

5. What did a donii with a likeness do?
(a) Capture the spirit of the one it resembled.
(b) Turn the person it resembled into a spirit.
(c) Inflicted bad luck on both the carver and the person resembling the likeness.
(d) Cause the person it resembled to die.

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

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

8. What stung Jondalar?
(a) His sorrow.
(b) His guilt.
(c) His shame.
(d) All of these.

9. What did the two stones on his shoulders display to Ayla?
(a) His faith in her skill.
(b) His trust in her.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

10. What did Ayla use that wasn't a part of Jondalar's kit?
(a) A foot bone of a mammoth.
(b) All of these.
(c) A hammer stone.
(d) An antler chisel.

11. What is the most important thing to remember when hunting chamois?
(a) Their sense of daring is astounding.
(b) All of these.
(c) They always look down.
(d) Their sense of smell is acute.

12. What holds a part of Ayla's spirit?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Ayla's amulet.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) The donii Jondalar carved.

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

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

15. What does Jondalar want to do with Ayla?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Kiss her.
(c) Give her First Rites.
(d) Neither of these.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jondalar promise Ayla?

3. What was Ayla's first effort to communicate, and what was the first thing she managed to communicate?

4. Who else had Jondalar told about Zolena?

5. What did the hyena smell like?

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