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

2. What were Jondalar and Thonolan hunting?
(a) Horses.
(b) Bison.
(c) Aurochs.
(d) Mammoth.

3. Who was the young, vivacious woman that Jondalar was interested in?
(a) Cherinio.
(b) Cerunio.
(c) Cherunio.
(d) Cheruneo.

4. 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 ptarmigan.
(d) When she flushed a giant hamster.

5. Why did Ayla continue making mashes for the horse even when she no longer needed them?
(a) The horse begged for them.
(b) All of these.
(c) The horse liked them.
(d) The horse wouldn't eat the other stuff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the woman that Jondalar was seeing?

2. What did Jondalar give Noria?

3. What did Jondalar do with the other tunic?

4. What were plantain leaves good for?

5. What did Ayla like to wear for comfort?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Jondalar so worried about regarding Thonolan's approach of the rhino?

2. What information did Creb give Ayla on signs from her totem?

3. What struck Ayla as wrong, and how did she feel when she had figured it out?

4. Why had Jondalar inadvertently hurt Radonio?

5. What did the old woman throw on the ground, and how did Jondalar react to it?

6. Why did Thonolan want to give up?

7. What animal had used the cave before Ayla, and how did she know? How did she react to this knowledge?

8. What idea struck Ayla?

9. Why was there always someone present when a young woman lost her virginity, or rather, had her First Rites?

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

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