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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color does Thonolan miss?
(a) Orange.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

2. What was Ayla's hide tent made of?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Giant Deer.
(c) Bear skin.
(d) Aurochs.

3. What does Thonolan tell Jondalar he has to look forward to?
(a) All of these.
(b) The next sunrise.
(c) The next bend in the river.
(d) The next woman he beds.

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

5. What did Ayla decide she would gather that day?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Cherries.
(d) Grain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what direction was the rhino nearly blind?

2. What festival was held when the moon was new in the Clan?

3. How many flatheads surrounded Jondalar and Thonolan?

4. What sign(s) did Ayla find from her totem?

5. What had happened between Thonolan and Jetamio?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ayla react to the valley?

2. What idea struck Ayla?

3. In what ways did Whinney help Ayla accomplish the reindeer hunt?

4. Who was Iza and what had she told Ayla on the night that she died?

5. What advantages did Ayla have that other clan women did not?

6. Why didn't Ayla get mad when Whinney ran and dumped all her things?

7. What kind of relationship did Jondalar and Jetamio start out with? What did it deepen into and how?

8. Why had Jondalar inadvertently hurt Radonio?

9. What transformation did Jetamio undergo when she smiled, and what impression did Jondalar get from that smile?

10. Why did Ayla take in the baby horse?

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