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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. Who was the woman that Jondalar was seeing?

2. How many flatheads surrounded Jondalar and Thonolan?

3. What did the first stones from Ayla's sling show the hyenas?

4. How long had the boat turned out to be?

5. What made the young horse come to Ayla?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What stroke of innovation allowed Ayla to bring down a horse on her own?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the difference between Thonolan and Jondalar?

8. What idea struck Ayla?

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

10. Why did Jondalar take special attention in making sure young women were Pleasured in their First Rites?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the use of herbal medicines throughout THE VALLEY OF HORSES. Why is herbalism important to Ayla's day to day life? What kinds of situations might never have come to pass if Ayla's skill was less than satisfactory? Why would this have been the case?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Ayla's preconceptions about the Others. Why did she fear meeting them, on some level? Why was she eager to meet them? What do the Other's represent to Ayla, on a deeper level?

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