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

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

3. What was the donii that Jondalar was making for Ayla made out of?
(a) Mammoth ivory.
(b) Wood.
(c) Marble.
(d) Soapstone.

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

5. Who had been killed in an earthquake?
(a) Ayla's mother.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Creb.
(d) Neither of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't a donii usually have a face?

2. What did Jondalar wish?

3. Who was the last person that had given Jondalar the same satisfaction?

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

5. What did Ayla want to know from her cave lion totem?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused Ayla much laughter following the onager kill?

2. Why had Ayla been embarrassed?

3. Why did Ayla leave Whinney?

4. Why was Thonolan so stressed?

5. Why wouldn't Jondalar stop loving Ayla?

6. What did the Clan consider as improper and why did Ayla question it? To what conclusion did Ayla come regarding this?

7. What did Thonolan learn from Jetamio?

8. What two things had Ayla done that astounded Jondalar?

9. What major problem in communication occurred in Chapter 23?

10. What does Ayla explain about the cave lion totem?

(see the answer keys)

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