CONFLICTS
Building Background
Story Information
Story Information 2
VOCABULARY
100
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
100
Laguna People
The story is focused around the...
100
Pouches containing collections of sacred items believed to possess magical influence.
What are medicine bags?
100
Teofilo
Who was found under the tree in the sheep farm?
100
Deep gully cut out by an intermittent stream
What is arroyo?
200
A struggle that occurs within a person's mind.
What is internal conflict?
200
Keresan
These people speak a dialect of the...language
200
A day or more
How long was the person found under that tree dead for?
200
A feather.
What is tied into Teofilo's hair after he was found dead?
200
Place devoted to religious seclusion
What is cloister?
300
A struggle that occurs between a person and someone or something outside that person.
What is an external conflict?
300
So the person can become "Shiwanna," and send the gift of rain.
What is the purpose of the their death ceremonies?
300
"Bring us rain grandfather"
What did Leon say to his grandfather after he ritually painted his face?
300
Cornmeal and pollen.
What are the two things that were sprinkled around Teofilo's body after his death?
300
Broad, flat-topped hill with cliff-like sides
What is mesa?
400
Man vs. Self.
What is another way to refer to an internal conflict?
400
New Mexico, Autumn
Where and when is this story set?
400
Father Paul and no.
Who do Leon and Ken run into on the way back to town? Do they tell him about Teofilo's death?
400
To ask Father Paul to sprinkle holy water on Teofilo's grave.
What did Louise ask Leon to do?
400
Stubbornly opposed to what is right
What is perverse?
500
Man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature or man vs. technology
What are the four examples of an external conflict?
500
Other indian tribes, the invading Spanish and the Protestants.
Name two of the three groups that harassed the Laguna people.
500
Leon did not want Father Paul to take over the funeral ceremonies.
Why did Leon not tell Father Paul that Teofilo had passed away?
500
Internal -- he was testing himself.
Would Father Paul's decision to attend Teofilo's wake be considered and internal or external conflict?
500
Ankle-length garment worn by religious men
What is cassock?
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