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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Old Man determine would happen to people?
(a) They would become sick, but they would live.
(b) They would live forever.
(c) They would determine their own lifespans.
(d) They would die.

2. Why did Quat create chirping birds?
(a) To provide entertainment for men.
(b) To wake the sleeping men.
(c) To spread seeds across the earth.
(d) To raise the sun in the morning.

3. What did the Old Man discover when he came to visit them each day?
(a) That they were growing old.
(b) That they were getting sick.
(c) That they had changed a little.
(d) That they were the same as the day before.

4. What animal did the raven create for the man to fear?
(a) An alligator.
(b) A cat.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A bear.

5. What did the Fool do with his puppets?
(a) Threw them in a hole and covered them with dirt.
(b) Set them on fire and spread their ashes.
(c) Gave them to the Wise.
(d) Drowned them in a lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Alatangana turn to for help with his children?

2. Why did Ra create an endless sea of mud?

3. What did he drink from?

4. How many years did Phan Ku live?

5. How did Sa feel about Alatangana's creations?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Quat create after he traveled to the far edge of the sky?

2. How many gods are responsible for creation in chapter three?

3. Where the first men alive?

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

5. Who is the Old Man in chapter five?

6. What happens to man and the world as time passes in this story?

7. What did the woman want the Old Man to decide?

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

9. Why might the Eskimo's contribute the creation of pea-pods, and man, to birds?

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

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