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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 Phan Ku use to carve out the world?

2. What is the name of Night in this story?

3. Where did the Old Man go in his travels?

4. How many years did Phan Ku live?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why didn't Quat the Fools puppets turn out like his brother's six puppets?

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

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

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

6. How did Phan Ku's body contribute to the creation of the world?

7. How did the woman and child come into being?

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

9. What did the man think about the sheep the raven created?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The female characters in these stories fall into two distinct categories: mother and shrew.

1) Which stories feature females as mothers? Are these women considered to be the creator gods?

2) Which stories feature females as shrews? What is often the result of their misbehavior?

What do these myths tell the reader about the role of women in these cultures?

Essay Topic 2

Why do cultures have a need to explain the origins of man, the earth and the heavens? How do the stories presented in the book help to explain these things? Give specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Many of the stories feature sets of twins. Might twins be considered special or magical in certain cultures? Why or why not? Are the twins presented in the stories good? Evil? Both? Neither?

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