In the selection from Of Plymouth Plantation, what period does the material following the heading “The Starving Time” describe?
What is the period of the first winter months in Massachusetts
100
What does Equiano describe in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano?
What is the ocean journey on a slave ship
100
What is a myth?
What a Native American story about their life and their culture.
100
“The Earth on Turtle's Back” tells how something came to exist. What is it that grew on Turtle's back?
What is the earth
100
In punishing the grizzlies, the Chief of the Sky Spirits shows
What is human qualities.
200
Which belief does Bradford express in the selection from Of Plymouth Plantation when he calls Squanto “a special instrument sent of God”?
What is his belief in God's protection of the Pilgrims
200
In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Equiano mentions “many of the inhabitants of the deep” who were happier than he was. Who or what is he describing?
What is the fish and other ocean creatures
200
What is an origin myth?
What is an Native American story about the beginnings of something.
200
What part of the natural world is explained by “When Grizzlies Walked Upright”?
What is how Indians came to be
200
In “When Grizzlies Walked Upright,” the daughter places herself in a dangerous position because she is
What is curious.
300
Which American holiday is described in Of Plymouth Plantation as an event the colonists share with Squanto's people?
What is Thanksgiving
300
Why did Olaudah Equiano write The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano?
What is to persuade readers of slavery's evil
300
What is a Slave narrative.
What is a narrative written by a slave about his/her experience
300
According to “When Grizzlies Walked Upright,” why do the Modocs never kill grizzly bears?
What is The grizzlies are their ancestors
300
Which detail most clearly shows that not every sailor on the slave ship was always cruel to the slaves?
What is the mariner's giving Equiano the quadrant to look through
400
In the selection from Of Plymouth Plantation, to what does the subheading “The Starving Time” refer?
What is the Pilgrims' first winter in the New World, especially January and February
400
“Necessary tubs” were used for people's basic needs in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. What were they?
What is toilets
400
What is a historical narrative?
What is a narrative written about a significant event in our country's history
400
“The Earth on Turtle's Back” explains the origin of
What is the earth.
400
What happens to the captives who try to get the extra fish the slave traders caught?
What is They are caught and flogged.
500
In the selection from Of Plymouth Plantation, what period does the material following the heading “The Starving Time” describe?
What is the period of the first winter months in Massachusetts
500
In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, why did slaves jump off the ship?
What is They preferred death to slavery.
500
Name a selection we read that was an origin myth.
What is Earth on a Turtle's Back or When Grizzlies Walked Upright
500
The Earth on Turtle's Back” shows the importance the Onondaga placed on
What is dreams.
500
What attitude toward slavery does the narrative most strongly convey?