What is to describe their experiences to people back home.
100
The Grizzlies are able to do what at the start of the story?
What is walk on two legs and talk.
100
What grows on the turtle's back?
What is earth.
100
What does the Sky Chief do to the bears out of anger?
What is he makes them walk on four legs and not speak.
100
What is a origin myth?
What is a tale explaining the creation of earth or another object in life.
200
Why did the Indians believe the explorers to be powerful?
What is the Indians became ill when the explorers were angry with them.
200
What is the first creation the Sky Chief makes in "Grizzlies"?
What is a hole and Mount Shasta.
200
What two items are used in order to make earth in "The Earth on turtle's Back"?
What is seeds from the Great Tree and earth from below the water.
200
Why do the Modac's living near Mount Shasta not kill Grizzly bears?
What is they are decedents from the bears.
200
Who are the parents of the first Native Americans?
What is the Sky Chief's daughter and a Grizzly bear.
300
Which words in this passage from "A Journey Through Texas" signal the passage of time?
a. "The next morning"
b. "all those"
c. "who were strong enough"
d. "came along"
What is a.
300
Why does the chief's daughter look out of the volcano?
What is she was curious to see the sea.
300
The chief's wife has a dream that the tree must be uprooted. What does the husband do?
What is he sends people to uproot the tree.
300
The main theme in "Grizzlies" is to explain the origin of what/who?
What is the first Native Americans.
300
Why is the Sky Chief angry with his daughter?
What is she created a creature that he did not want.
400
In "A Journey Through Texas", why do the people "of the cows" no longer raise maize?
What is it had not rained for two years, and moles had eaten the corn.
400
When the mother Grizzly seeks forgiveness from the Chief before she dies, what does this suggest about Modac values?
What is they believed in forgiveness before death in order to be with the Gods in an afterlife.
400
By uprooting the tree due to a dream, what does this suggest about the power of dreams in the Onondaga tribe?
What is they value dreams as messages from their God.
400
In "When Grizzlies Walked Upright", the daughter of the Sky Chief and the son of the grizzly family marry, have a family, and live in a special lodge. What modern archetype do these two characters represent?
a. mixed marriage
b. a frontier couple
c. Little Mount Shasta
d. The wisdom of age
What is a.
400
Which of these would be your ancestor?
a. grandparents
b. your sister or brother
c. your niece or nephew
d. your great-grandchildren
What is a.
500
What are the explorers opinion of the natives? How does influence how the natives treat the explorers?
What is not high. The explorers view the natives as savage and possibly superstitious and gullible. The natives treat the explorers as powerful Gods and this is seen when they ask the explorers to not be angry with them in order to heal their sick. Also, when they ask the explorers to make it rain.
500
List at least three archetypal characters found in the origin myths.
What is Native Americans, talking animals, Gods, mother earth, and worship of earthly beings (trees).
500
Describe the muskrat's journey to get earth. Why is this self-sacrifice?
What is difficult because she was small and not strong. She was willing to die to save the woman.
500
Which of these saying expresses a cultural value clearly suggested by "The Earth on Turtle's Back"?
a. Might makes right
b. If you don't succeed, try, try, again
c. There's no place like home
d. The meek shall inherit the earth
What is b.
500
The Sky Chief in "Grizzlies" creates landforms and several living things. Name the creation process of one landform and one living creature.