Deck 8: North America: Stories From the Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo Southwest; and From the Iroquois League Northeastern Woodlands

Question 1

A disadvantage of studying a written version of a myth instead of an oral one is that _____________________.

A) you can't trust a written version
B) it is now "fossilized" and no longer living and changing
C) it no longer represents the belief of the people who "own" it
D) what the storyteller said is now lost

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Diné bahane' is the creation myth of the _________________.

A) Hopi
B) Navajo
C) Cherokee
D) Zuni

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A motif common to the Native American myths we have read is ________________.

A) there is no social order in the early levels of creation
B) creation progresses because of help from a supreme being
C) the first creatures are prehuman and originate below ground
D) when humans reach their final stage, they are given dominion over lesser animals

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Ruth Benedict's theory of cultural relativism is important in studying mythology because _______________________________________________________________________.

A) it means reading mythological texts as part of developing an understanding of a group
B) it means that there are many opportunities for varying interpretations, since it is "relative"
C) students of mythology are always interested in culture
D) serious study must always have underlying theories to support ideas

Question 5

Corn Mountain and Where the Cotton Hangs, points of reference in the Zuni Emergence myth, are _______________________________________________________________________.

A) examples of how creative some collectors of myths can be
B) places where the bow priests found prayersticks
C) places where Spider Grandmother was said to live
D) real places that are sacred to the Zuni today

Question 6

The two young boys who lead their primitive people upward to the fourth world are sons of ________________________.

A) the Sun.
B) Spider Grandmother
C) Kokopeli
D) a powaka

Question 7

The boys in the Zuni Emergence myth made ______________ from branches of aspen, pine, spruce, and silver spruce.

A) shelters
B) arrows
C) fences
D) prayersticks

Question 8

In the Zuni Emergence myth, sunflowers and buttercups originated from _______________________________.

A) the tears of the people blinded by the light as they came into the fourth world
B) rain produced by the clouds in the fourth world
C) the waters of Slime Spring, which the people encountered in their migrations
D) the Sun shining down on the fourth world

Question 9

_________________________ helped the people in the Zuni Emergence myth to find the middle, where they were to live.

A) A powaka
B) The two boys
C) Spider Grandmother
D) Water Spider

Question 10

In the Hopi Creation Story, the sun and moon are created by _______________.

A) a powaka
B) a young boy
C) Spider Grandmother
D) the people

Question 11

_________________ is the major "helper" and "donor" in the Hopi Creation Story.

A) A powaka
B) A coyote
C) Spider Grandmother
D) Water Spider

Question 12

The Air-Spirit People are rejected by the One That Grabs Things in the Water, Frog, Blue Heron, and Winter Thunder because they ______________________________________________________.

A) declared war on other groups when they encountered them
B) committed adultery with one another
C) were considered a threat to the new communities
D) refused to obey the laws of the place

Question 13

In Diné bahane', the Air-Spirit people had to leave the world of the Swallow people because they had misbehaved again, and also because _________________________.

A) the Swallow people had regretted helping them
B) there was not enough food to support both groups
C) they wanted to move on anyway
D) they could find nothing there

Question 14

Of the following colors, only _____________ is NOT the designation of one of the Navajo four worlds.

A) blue
B) yellow
C) red
D) white

Question 15

In the Navajo creation myth, the creatures are always able to get to the next world because ___________________.

A) the way is always obvious
B) they get help from a native of the current world
C) every group they encounter wants them to go
D) they have a fine intuition

Question 16

The most striking feature of the fourth world for the new arrivals was ___________.

A) that people lived in upright houses
B) that there was an abundance of water
C) that no one wanted them there
D) its small size

Question 17

During the ritual in which the Holy People created humans, the ears of corn wrapped in the buckskin were transformed to living humans via the _______________________.

A) blowing Wind
B) power of the Sun
C) chanting of the Holy People
D) will of the Holy People

Question 18

Axtell notes that Iroquois women were in control of_______________________________________.

A) hunting and fishing
B) conflict resolution
C) agriculture and managing the food supply
D) caring for the children
E)finding new hunting grounds for the tribe

Question 19

In a Tale of the Sky World, ________________________________________________.

A) humans have not yet been created
B) a race of humans has been destroyed
C) humans already exist, but are not yet on earth
D) humans are created from clouds
E)the gods argue over what model of humans should be allowed to thrive

Question 20

In Woodlands mythology, the turtle represents all of the following EXCEPT _______________________.

A) Mother Earth
B) wisdom
C) prosperity
D) peace

Question 21

In a Tale of the Sky World, ______________ was the name of the evil twin

A) Othagwenda
B) Djuskaha
C) Dasani
D) Sky holder

Question 22

All of the following were Tribes of the Iroquois League/Six Nations EXCEPT

A) Oneidas
B) Cherokee
C) Tuscarora
D) Onandagas

Question 23

The creation myth of the Navajo people is called _____________________.

Question 24

Ruth Benedict's theory that the study of a culture must take place within the context of that culture is called __________________________________.

Question 25

The Pueblo Indians call their ancestors __________________________.

Question 26

The definition of __________________ is that they are formal, dramatic presentations of sacred beliefs.

Question 27

Figures carved into rocks by the Anasazi Indians are called _______________.

Question 28

In the Zuni Emergence myth, people could not eat the corn because ___________________________.

Question 29

Even after the people in the Zuni Emergence myth had individual fingers and toes, they still had __________________ and ___________________.

Question 30

The ritual of ________________________ in the Hopi Creation Story is the basis for clans dispersing and settling in different areas.

Question 31

In the Hope and Navajo creation myths, the people must find a slit, or ____________, to climb through to get to the next world.

Question 32

In the Navajo creation story, the people escape the flood by ____________________.

Question 33

According to beliefs of the Southwest American Indians, our ___________________ show where the wind blew when it created human beings.

Question 34

In The Tale of the Sky world, _____________________ who fell from the sky, was the first human.

Question 35

Othagwenda believed that life should not be too _________ for humans.

Question 36

In the Iroquois legend of the origin of the human race, the _______ gathered in council.

Question 37

Ta-rhü-hia-wah-kü, the_________, resolved upon a special creation of a superior race.