American Literature Exam with correct answers 2024
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American Literatur
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American Literatur
Raven, Mink, Bluejay, and Coyote tend to be featured in these kind of Native tales. correct answers Trickster stories
These types of Native tales tend to center on "the one who sets things right"...all his actions have a distinct bearing upon the establishment of the modern order [explanations ...
Raven, Mink, Bluejay, and Coyote tend to be featured in these kind of Native tales.
correct answers Trickster stories
These types of Native tales tend to center on "the one who sets things right"...all his
actions have a distinct bearing upon the establishment of the modern order
[explanations for the way things are or the proper rules for living]. correct answers
Culture Hero stories
These kind of Native tales tend to deal with accidental, unintentional occurrences; the
decisions of a council of animals; development due to the actions of two antagonistic
beings, the one benevolent and wishing to make everything easy for man, the other one
counteracting these intentions and creating the difficulties and hardships of life. correct
answers Creation or Origin stories
According to your American Passages reading on Native Voices, "Unit Overview," many
American Indians define themselves not primarily as "Native Americans" but as: correct
answers members of a specific tribe
Our working definition of American literature can best be summarized as: correct
answers 1. Literature written about America or what will become America.
2. Literature written by U.S. citizens.
3. Oral stories or songs, later written down, from lands that will become America.
In the Iroquois Creation Story, what did the pregnant Sky Woman land upon when she
sunk down into the dark world? correct answers a giant turtle with dirt on its back
In the Iroquois Creation Story, what did the "good mind" (good twin) make the sun out
of? correct answers his dead mother's head
In the Pima Indian story of creation, where did the earth (land) come from? correct
answers perspiration of Juh-wert-a-Mah-kai (Doctor of the Earth)
In Pima creation stories, where did the Great Being have to put the sun and the moon to
make them work properly? correct answers the East
In Pima Creation Stories, why did the Great Being keep killing the humans (his people)?
correct answers they ate each other, or turned gray with age, or smoked
In the Sioux trickster tale, "Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater," Iktomi finds out that the only
way to defeat Iya is from his fear of.... correct answers sounds like drums, rattles and
shouting
, In the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, Trickster made himself a "very pretty woman,
indeed." What kind of animal parts (liver and kidney) did he use to "convert" himself?
correct answers elk
In the Koasati trickster tale, "The Bungling Host," we find out how what animal got a
pierced beak for the first time? correct answers Buzzard
In the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, Section 19, what drove Trickster to pretend to be a
woman and go into the village in the first place ? correct answers he and his friends
were hungry and starving
In the Winnebago Trickster Cycle, Section 23, Trickster ignores the advice of a plant
that states, "he who chews me will _________________ ." correct answers defecate
According to his letter to Luis de Santangel, what procedure did Columbus follow when
he "took possession" of the islands he called the Indies for King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella of Spain? correct answers He read a proclamation and unfurled a flag.
Columbus often named the islands he "discovered" after correct answers Royalty,
Catholic saints and religious concepts.
In the letter to Luis de Santangel, Columbus emphasizes the New World's correct
answers fertility.
What does Columbus ask King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to do for him in the letter
regarding the Fourth Voyage? correct answers punish those who had stolen from him
and infringed on his rights
Which of the following best describes Columbus's financial situation on his final voyage?
correct answers He had spent or been stripped of most of the wealth he had accrued on
earlier voyages.
Columbus' first voyage quickly opened a floodgate of exploration and conquest. Within
how many years of Columbus's first voyage (1492) had Europeans explored both
exteriors and interiors of both American continents, and conquered the Incas and
Aztecs? correct answers fifty years
Feedback: "Within fifty years of 1492, then, the east coasts of much of both continents
had been explored and many of their interior regions had been traversed; the most
powerful and sophisticated of their peoples, the Aztecs and the Incas, had been
conquered; and Europe had settled in for a long stay."
Which of these writers endured being marooned for almost 10 years in the American
south and southwest? correct answers Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
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