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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 did the raven use to create mountain sheep?

2. What did the Old Man tell the mother and child to do on the fourth day?

3. What did the man think of the sheep?

4. Where did the children go when they grew up?

5. What did Alatangana ask Sa to give him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sa's home?

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

3. What were Alatangana's children like?

4. What is the death rattle, and what effect does it have on people?

5. Where the first men alive?

6. How did Quat the Fool create death?

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

8. How were Quat and his brothers created in chapter two?

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

10. Why did Sa turn down Alatangana's marriage proposal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the twin gods in chapter eight with the twin gods in chapter eleven.

How are they alike?

How are they different?

What is the relationship like between Mawu and Lisa?

What is the relationship like between Tawis-karong and Tijus-keha?

Essay Topic 2

Often the sun and moon are seen as opposites. One is said to exist before the other.

1) Which stories begin with darkness?

2) Which stories begin with light?

3) Do more stories begin with darkness or with light? Why might this be?

Essay Topic 3

How many of the stories have a ruler of death, the dead or the underworld? How were these rulers created? Are they equal to the creator god? Why or why not? How can you tell? Are the rules of the dead fearful gods? Happy gods? Neither? Both? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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