11th Final Exam

The Iroquois use the ideas in this myth to...

• explain how natural phenomena came to be

• explain why animals are important to people

• describe the joys of human relationships

• explain why people use different hands

Where do people live at the beginning of the world in “The Earth on the Turtle’s Back”?

• In an Ocean World under the Ocean.

• There are no people anywhere.

• Inside the world, like babies in a womb.

• In a Sky World above the world.

What happened to the grandmother?

• The left-handed twin cut off her head

• The right-handed twin cut off her head and turned it into the moon

• The right-handed twin cut off her head and turned it into the sun

• She returned to the Sky-World

The twins' creations in this myth tell you that Iroquois culture

• believes in a balance in nature

• bases its rituals on deer meat

• respects the porcupine the most

• wishes more medicines were made

a poem that has no specific rhyme scheme or structure

• free verse

• haiku

• limerick

• ballad

"The Earth on Turtle's Back" explains the origin of?

• The sky
• The sea
• The earth
• Where animals come from

These American Indians lived in northeastern United States and Eastern woodlands.

• Lakota
• Kwakiutl
• Inuit
• Iroquois

Which statement best describes a central theme of the poem New Orleans by Joy Harjo?

• Individuals who devote a lot of time to understanding a culture’s past become
  paralyzed by it.

• Learning about a culture’s past can shape the individual’s experience of the present.

• Cities provide insight into the shared history of the location where they were built.

• Historical figures are rarely as important as people make them out to be.

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

Free verse poetry does not have...

• stanzas
• plot or conflict
• rhyme or rhythm
• serious topic