View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture does the myth of Phan Ku come from?

2. What did Quat use to cut a hole in the Night?

3. Why did Alatangana create plants and animals?

4. Who is the Creator in chapter 5?

5. Why didn't Alatangana like Sa's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Phan Ku look like?

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

3. How did Old Man decide if mankind would live forever or die?

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

5. Why did the raven create the sheep and other animals?

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

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

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

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

10. What curse did Sa put on Alatangana's children?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The gods in each story have different relationships with man. What are some of the relationships between god and man presented in the stories? Are these positive relationships? Personal relationships?

Essay Topic 2

How does the story of Sa and Alatangana (chapter three) attempt to explain the different cultures, languages and races that populate the earth? Are these differences considered good or bad? Provide details from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Compare the Earth Starter myth in chapter seven with the Divine Woman myth in chapter eleven. How are these myths similar? Where are the cultures who tell these myths located? Why might their stories be similar?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 592 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample