Native American Literature

Question 1

The first interactions between European settlers and Native Americans were mostly attempts at religious conversion.

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False

Question 2

What was the old man's first law in "The Blackfeet Genesis?'

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humans will be immortal

Question 3

Similarities between the Biblical creation story and "the World on the Turtle's Back" include:

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knowing both good and evil, females are curious and disobeying

Question 4

the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work

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theme

Question 5

The archetype in the story "The Blackfeet Genesis" is

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creator/old man character

Question 6

What about the natural world does "The Sky Tree" explain?

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how the earth was formed

Question 7

Coyote finishes his work is a creation myth from which NA culture?

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Nez Perce

Question 8

an anonymous traditional story, religious in nature, usually serves to explain a mysterious natural phenomenon

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creation myth

Question 9

Examples of Native American archetypes include:

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trickster character, old man character

Question 10

persistent, stubborn, obstinate

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tenacious

Question 11

a very old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages

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archetype

Question 12

a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

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personification

Question 13

Native American Oral traditions are more inclusive of the natural world than Western literature traditions.

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True

Question 14

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of like or as

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metaphor

Question 15

an isolated hill or mountain rising above the surrounding land

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buttes

Question 16

Why does the woman ask the old man to reinstate his first law in "The Blackfeet Genesis?"

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her son dies

Question 17

Many NA writings did not because translation was difficult with hundreds of NA languages.

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True

Question 18

An example of a trickster character (archetype) in the stories we read

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the coyote

Question 19

In "The Sky Tree," Aataentsic cuts down the tree to obtain what?

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medicine for her husband

Question 20

implied, rather than expressly stated

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implicit

Questions 20