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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was different about six of Alatangana's children?

2. How did the raven create the mountain sheep?

3. What did Quat make the first men from?

4. What were nine of the brothers named after?

5. What was special about all of Alatangana's children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Alatangana think about Sa's home?

2. Why was Sa upset when Alatangana married his daughter?

3. What does the Creator look like in chapter one?

4. Why did the raven decide to make the bear?

5. What did Phan Ku look like?

6. After Quat was born, he showed himself to be different than his brothers. What did Quat do that made him stand out?

7. Quat is the solar god of the Bank Islands. What parts of his story have to do with the sunlight and creation?

8. Why might the god in chapter four burst out from an egg?

9. Who was Phan Ku?

10. Where the first men alive?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which stories involve a trickster? What are the characteristics of a trickster? How do things usually end up for the trickster? Give examples from the text in your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How do the stories deal with fate vs. free will? Are the people created int he different stories under the god(s) control? Do they have free will? Examine at least three of stories in your answer and provide details from the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Almost all of the creators in the myths presented are male. Why do so many stories feature men? What does this tell the reader about the cultures the stories come from?

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