Unit I Test Flashcards
“The animals said they would try to get some. One by one the diving birds and animals tried and failed…finally the muskrat said he would try.”
Name the passage of this work
“The World on a Turtle’s Back”
What does the left handed twin want the mountain lion to do? (WOTB)
eat the deer
Left-handed twin is for: (WOTB)
war, preparing war
Right-handed twin is for: (WOTB)
the daylight realm
What do the twins represent (WOTB)
balance in the world
What does this creation myth explain about the Iroquois dance rituals? (WOTB)
People dance in the same direction as the sun.
“The animals said thy would try to get some. One by one the diving birds and animals tried and failed…finally the muskrat said he would try.”
What literary device is used? (WOTB)
Personification
“Some say she slipped. Some say that her husband, fed up with all the demands she had made on him, pushed her.”
What literary device is used in this passage? (WOTB)
Idiom
The right-handed twin is angry with the left-handed twin because… (WOTB)
The left-handed twin killed their mother.
When the woman falls from the sky, the birds’ actions show that animals… (WOTB)
care about the gods and have a special relationship with the gods
The left-handed twin’s choice of weapon suggests that he… (WOTB)
knows that his brother is supposed to win
Why does the man go to the Great Tree at the beginning of the myth? (WOTB)
He wants to make his wife happy
The Great Tree is important in the Iroquois’ creation myth because the tree’s roots… (WOTB)
provide the earth’s platnts
The diversity of plants on the Great Tree is important to the creation myths of the Iroquois because the tree’s… (WOTB)
Roots bring many plants to earth
The Iroquois call the right-handed twin the “Master of Life” because he… (WOTB)
represents the sun, which is vital for all life.
As a preacher, Jonathan Edwards uses his sermon to.. (S)
frighten his congregation into seizing the opportunity to come back to Puritanism and revise salvation.
Edwards compares each of his listeners to “a spider or some loathsome insect held over the fire” in order to stress human being’s…. (S)
powerlessness in comparison to God
Edwards presents God as being who… (S)
is often angry and vegeful
All of the following are images sed by Jonathan Edwards to scare his audience EXCEPT
a wide, gaping canyon
Who is the author of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?
Jonathan Edwards
Which of these people or forces does the sermon indicate is the most powerful? (S)
God
Toward the end of the sermon, Edward’s tone shifts from.. (S)
Frightening to hopeful
Edward’s vivid description of hell is intended to… (S)
frighten his audience
The use of biblical quotation at the end of Edward’s sermon strengthens his argument by.. (S)
Associating it with an authority respected by the audience.
