Native American Beliefs and Early American Writings Quiz

How did Native Americans pass down their beliefs and traditions?

• through boarding schools

• through study

• through reading books

• through oral storytelling

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Other Early American writings include first-person accounts in the form of journals, diaries, letters, logs, and historical narratives. How did these writings function for those back in Europe?

• as descriptors of the land

• so people could visualize life in the colonies

• as descriptors of the land and so people in Europe could visualize life in the colonies

• as warnings to not come to America

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Native American myths have which story elements?

• explanations of natural phenomenon

• talking animals

• the supernatural

• all of the above

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The Navajo Origin Myth may best be described as:

• a love story

• a creation/origin story

• a trickster tale

• a fantasy

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In The Navajo Origin Myth, what is created at the end of the ritual description?

• an ear of corn

• a blanket

• an eagle

• a man and a woman

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Why does the Chief of the Sky Spirit’s youngest daughter disobey her father’s warning?

• she doesn’t like her father

• she wants to see the ocean

• she does not disobey her father

• she is interested in the Grizzlies

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Why did the Grizzly mother want to confess to the Sky Spirit?

• she was in love with the Sky Spirit

• she was old and nearing the end of her life

• she had done it many times before

• none of the above - she did not confess to the Sky Spirit

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What did the Chief of the Sky Spirits do to the Grizzlies when he saw his daughter and the new race she had created with them?

• he took all the Grizzly bear-human babies back to Mt. Shasta to live

• he cursed them, made them walk on all fours, and took away their ability to speak

• he blessed them for creating something new

• none of the above

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In this story, the storyteller believes that the new race created by the Sky Spirit’s daughter and the Grizzly formed today’s...

• American Black Bears

• Native Americans

• Catholics

• Lutherans

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In this story, what does the Ancient Chief’s wife dream of?

• the great lake drying up

• the great tree being uprooted

• that she must leave the tribe

• the wife does not have a dream

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