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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the children go when they grew up?
(a) To different parts of the earth.
(b) To the oceans.
(c) To the endless sea of mud.
(d) To Sa's house.

2. What happened to the being once it burst from the egg?
(a) He shrank to a dwarf.
(b) He became an old man.
(c) He turned into a baby.
(d) He grew into a giant.

3. What did the Old Man tell the mother and child to do on the fourth day?
(a) Populate the earth.
(b) Keep him company on his travels.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Rise up and walk.

4. How was Death created?
(a) Quat's brother created puppets but let them rot.
(b) Tangaro the Wise stopped playing with puppets.
(c) Death was not created in this story.
(d) Quat was killed by his brother.

5. Which culture does the myth of the Old Man come from?
(a) The Powhatan Indians.
(b) The Navajo Indians.
(c) The Iriquois Indians.
(d) The Blackfoot Indians.

6. What was the dome of the sky formed from?
(a) Phan Ku's mind.
(b) Phan Ku's body.
(c) Phan Ku's skull.
(d) Phan Ku's hands.

7. Who created the dawn?
(a) Tangaro.
(b) The Fool.
(c) Quat.
(d) Quatgoro.

8. Why didn't Alatangana like Sa's house?
(a) He thought it was too small.
(b) He loved the house.
(c) He thought it was too dark.
(d) He coveted the house.

9. What did Alatangana ask Sa to give him?
(a) His home in the mud.
(b) Money.
(c) Sheep and other animals.
(d) His daughter's hand in marriage.

10. What did the raven bring when it returned?
(a) Blueberries and blackberries.
(b) Raspberries and heathberries.
(c) A rock and water.
(d) A turtle and a snake.

11. What did the man think of the sheep?
(a) He was scared of them.
(b) He thought they looked good to eat.
(c) He wanted to own them.
(d) He was intrigued by them.

12. What was different about six of Alatangana's children?
(a) They were black.
(b) They were boys.
(c) They were girls.
(d) They were white.

13. Who did Alatangana turn to for help with his children?
(a) Sa's wife.
(b) The moon.
(c) Sa.
(d) The sun.

14. What did the Old Man say when the stone sank?
(a) People would live only ten years.
(b) People would live forever.
(c) There would never be another woman.
(d) There would be an end to people.

15. Why did the raven make more sheep?
(a) Because the man liked them.
(b) The raven did not make more sheep.
(c) Because the raven liked them.
(d) So the pea pod people could eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is to blame for death?

2. What did the man look like when he fell out?

3. What did Phan Ku use to carve out the world?

4. What animal did the raven create for the man to fear?

5. Who is Quat the Creator?

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