WorksheetsLA10 Early American Literature / Unit 1 Test Review
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What kind of story is "The World on the Turtle's Back?"
a)
Nonfiction / primary source
b)
creation myth
c)
folk tale
d)
fairy tale
2.
Which story is a nonfiction primary source?
a)
"The Man to Send Rain Clouds"
b)
"Coyote Stories"
c)
"La Relacion"
d)
"Deer Woman"
3.
Which traditional story received a contemporary update to fit into more modern times?
a)
"Coyote Stories"
b)
"The Interesting Narrative on the Life of Olaudah Equiano"
c)
"Deer Woman"
d)
"Of Plymouth Plantation
4.
Which story is a slave narrative?
a)
"Of Plymouth Plantation"
b)
"The Interesting Narrative on the Life of Olaudah Equiano"
c)
"La Relacion"
d)
"Deer Woman"
5.
Which traditional story directly explains why bulls have horns and whales don't live in rivers?
a)
"The World On the Turtle's Back"
b)
"Deer Woman"
c)
"The Man to Send Rain Clouds"
d)
"Coyote Stories"
6.
Which nonfiction primary source gives a more balanced view of the Native Americans?
a)
"Of Plymouth Plantation"
b)
"The Interesting Narrative on the Life of Olaudah Equiano"
c)
"La Relacion"
7.
Which story shows a change to a tradition?
a)
"The Man to Send Rain Clouds"
b)
"The World on the Turtle's Back"
c)
"The Interesting Narrative on the Life of Olaudah Equiano"
8.
What is imagery?
a)
a comparison using like or as
b)
a comparison not using like or as
c)
a run-on sentence
d)
description using all 5 senses
9.
Which story explains why there is good and evil in the world?
a)
"Deer Woman"
b)
"The World on the Turtle's Back"
c)
"The Interesting Narrative on the Life of Olaudah Equiano"
d)
"Coyote Stories"
10.
Which story is a trickster tale?
a)
"Deer Woman"
b)
"The World on the Turtle's Back"
c)
"Coyote Stories"
d)
"The Man to Send Rain Clouds"
11.
What kind of trickster is Coyote in "Coyote and the Buffalo?"
a)
numskull and clever deceiver
b)
culture hero
c)
numskull
d)
clever deceiver
12.
What kind of trickster is Coyote in "The Fox, The Coyote, and the Whale?"
a)
clever deceiver
b)
numskull
c)
culture hero
d)
culture hero and clever deceiver
13.
What new ritual is added to the traditional funeral ceremony in "The Man to Send Rain Clouds?"
a)
sprinkling cornmeal and pollen over the body
b)
tying a feather in the hair
c)
sprinkling holy water over the grave
d)
wrapping the body in a red blanket
14.
What is a ritual?
a)
(noun) ceremonial act or series of acts
b)
(verb) to give up or give in; yield
c)
(noun) an empty space
d)
(noun) comfort in sorrow or distress
15.
Which vocabulary word fits this definition: (adjective) shifty; not straightforward
a)
aloof
b)
devious
c)
feigned
d)
reverent
16.
Which verb means to get/obtain something by special effort?
a)
rendezvous
b)
procure
c)
vanquish
d)
placate
17.
Which verb means to obey a command or request?
a)
ingratiate
b)
lament
c)
beseech
d)
comply
18.
What is the definition of beseech?
a)
to beg
b)
to overwhelm
c)
to give in
d)
to defeat
19.
Which verb means to overwhelm?
a)
lament
b)
beseech
c)
comply
d)
inundate
20.
Which verb means to meet at a prearranged time?
a)
beseech
b)
rendezvous
c)
ingratiate
d)
comply
21.
Which vocabulary word fits this definition: (adjective) susceptible to injury; easily hurt?
a)
imperceptibly
b)
copious
c)
vulnerable
d)
nominal
22.
Which noun means greed?
a)
calamity
b)
countenance
c)
apprehension
d)
avarice
23.
Which noun is a disaster?
a)
calamity
b)
anguish
c)
avarice
d)
apprehension
24.
Which adjective means in large amounts or abundant?
a)
wretched
b)
copious
c)
nominal
d)
vulnerable
25.
Which pronouns would you see for a third-person narrator?
a)
I, me, my
b)
she, he, they, them
c)
you, your
26.
What is a narrator?
a)
the person telling the story
b)
the person who wrote the story
c)
the person reading the story
d)
a person in the story
27.
Which pronouns would you expect to see with a first-person narrator?
a)
I, me, my
b)
she, he, they, them
c)
you, your
28.
Which type of text is written by a person who was actually there?
a)
fiction
b)
myth
c)
primary source
d)
trickster tale
29.
What do a person's location, language, religion, fashion, and food create?
a)
rituals
b)
tradition
c)
culture
d)
myth
30.
What is a problem with a primary source text?
a)
Some primary sources only give one perspective.
b)
They are fiction.
c)
You only believe them if you are from that religion.
d)
Ceremonies can be changed.
31.
What kind of audience did Cabeza de Vaca write "La Relacion" for?
a)
his wife
b)
his diary
c)
his boss, the King of Spain
d)
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32.
Who started his nonfiction primary source account by promising "to be brief" but then gave us six pages of run-on sentences?
a)
William Bradford
b)
Cabeza de Vaca
c)
Mourning Dove
d)
Olaudah Equiano
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