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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 is the name of Nayambi's wife?

2. What is the name of the god in chapter 10?

3. What fell from the sky?

4. What was Maidere's answer to Ulgen's question?

5. According to chapter 11, in the beginning there was only water and what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What caused Nayambi to want to be free from Kamonu?

2. How were the lesser gods created?

3. What is the woman's personality like after she is brought to life by Erlik?

4. What did the seer tell Nayambi to do to the spider that helped him escape?

5. Where is Karora asleep when as chapter nine begins?

6. How did Karora and the Bandicoots create man?

7. What does Maidere tell Ulgen the reason is for the fact that the men never change?

8. How and why are women created?

9. What did Ulgen create after he created the earth?

10. How were the woman's children born?

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

Which stories involve a trickster? What are the characteristics of a trickster? How do things usually end up for the trickster? Give examples from the text in your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Both the raven in chapter one and Quat the Creator in chapter two design the earth to please mankind. What are some of the creations they make to please man? What does this say about these gods? What does it tell the reader about how they feel toward man?

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