Iroquois Quiz Review (The World on the Turtle's Back)

Who/What mysteriously appears when the little girl becomes a woman in “World on the Turtle’s Back”?

• Animals begin to appear.

• Other people begin to appear.

• Her father mysteriously appears.

• A man appears.

How does the woman cause the plants to grow in “World on the Turtle’s Back”?

• She waters it and chants over it.

• She walks in a circle, following the Sun, around the clod of dirt.

• The animals cause it to grow with their knowledge of life.

• She prays over it.

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What becomes of the grandmother in “World on the Turtle’s Back”?

• She dies and is buried, the first to receive the Iroquois funeral rites.

• Her body becomes the earth, from which food grows.

• Her head becomes the moon, watching over the world.

• She is cast into the ocean.

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The twins in “World on the Turtle’s Back” decide to settle their differences in what way?

• They ask their father to choose between

  them.

• They ask their grandmother to choose

  between them.

• They do not have any differences.

• They have a series of duels.

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How does the girl become pregnant in “World on the Turtle’s Back”?

• She is born pregnant.

• Nobody knows.

• A man fills her with terror and she faints.

• Two arrows, one sharp and one blunt, are laid across her body.

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In “World on the Turtle’s Back”, what grows on the twins’ mother’s grave?

• The plants that Iroquois still eat.

• A huge tree, like the one in Sky World.

• Nothing will grow there.

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To whom does the first woman give birth in “World on the Turtle’s Back”?

• Two sons.

• A daughter.

• All animals.

• All of these are true.

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What kind of story attempts to explain the creation of things?

• Folk Tale

• Creation Myth

• Epic Tale

• Legend

From what culture does the story come?

• Apahe
• Iroquis
• Cherokee
• Lakota

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The term "Iroquois" refers to how many separate groups?

• 4
• 5
• 8
• 6