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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ayla use on her hair?

2. Who was the woman that Jondalar was seeing?

3. What was/is Ayla's totem?

4. What was the problem with fording the channels?

5. Why did Ayla continue making mashes for the horse even when she no longer needed them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why had Jondalar inadvertently hurt Radonio?

2. How did Ayla react to the valley?

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

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

5. Why were the gifts from others not really anonymous?

6. What idea struck Ayla?

7. What was the difference in the Shamudoi and the Ramudoi specialties when it came to hunting?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the relationship between Ayla, Baby and Whinney. How is this similar to a multi-pet household? In what ways was Ayla's relationship different from anything that is around in present day? What specific traits are important to note regarding the domesticated animals?

Essay Topic 2

Ayla struggles to find her place in life, plagued by multiple insecurities and misconceptions. How is this struggle similar to that of women everywhere? What kinds of things can women learn from Ayla?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jondalar's gradual change in perception regarding the flatheads. What likely finished the transitional process between animals to humans in Jondalar's mind, and what outside source responsible for this shift? What does this change in perception foreshadow what will occur later on?

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