Native American Literature
What type of story explains how a culture believed the world and its inhabitants came to be?
Creation myth
What important political document was signed by the Pilgrims in 1620?
The Mayflower Compact
Who wrote Of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
What literary term means an author’s attitude toward a subject?
Tone
What vocabulary word means “a shortage or insufficient supply”?
Scarcity
What plant grows at the center of the world in the Iroquois creation myth?
A tree
What was the primary subject of many of the earliest colonists’ writings?
The hardships or rigors of colonial life
DAILY DOUBLE
Which Native American, who had previously been kidnapped and taken to Europe, became an important helper to the Plymouth settlers?
What is the term for an author’s choice of words?
Diction
What vocabulary word means “to calm someone’s anger or soothe”?
Mollify
Who translated many works of the Iroquois people and became the first Native American archaeologist?
Arthur C. Parker
What concept received an early extended expression in John Smith’s A Description of New England?
The American Dream
During which war was Mary Rowlandson captured?
King Philip’s War
What is a recurring character, symbol, or narrative element appearing across cultures and expressing universal human experience?
Archetype
What vocabulary word means “an earnest request or petition”?
Entreaty
DAILY DOUBLE
In the Iroquois Constitution, what group had veto power within the council?
What is the primary tone of John Smith’s writing in A Description of New England?
Defensive and boastful
According to John Winthrop, what kind of liberty is the freedom to do what is right?
Civil liberty
In argumentation, what do we call a claim that challenges the validity of the original claim?
Counterclaim
What vocabulary word means “stubbornness or refusal to change one’s position”?
Obstinacy
In the Iroquois Constitution, the roots of the Great Tree extend in four directions. What do they represent?
Strength
In what order does John Smith make his famous persuasive appeals in A Description of New England?
“Our God, our King, our country, and ourselves”
Bradford compares the Pilgrims to Moses viewing the Promised Land from which biblical mountain?
Mount Pisgah
What term describes the interpretation of Old Testament people, events, and institutions as signs that prefigure New Testament realities?
Typology
What vocabulary word means “to repay or return something done or felt in a similar or appropriate manner”?
Requite