American Lit: week 1-3

Match the following:

• the expression of thoughts as spoken words

• speech

• the custom of passing down legends, folk tales, songs, and other narratives by word of mouth

• myth

• a traditional story, rooted in a culture, that deals with supernatural beings or as human heroes

• trickster tale

• a character challenges the established order of things, bending others to his will

• oral tradition

Based on The Osage Creation Account and the Navajo Creation Myth, one can assume that BOTH:

• have the same gods

• believe in four worlds

• feel close to the earth and animals

• have the same beliefs about creation

The sun and the moon were the ______ of Wazha'zhe.

What is the meaning of ethnocentrism?

• judging other societies against your own

• unity

• cultural relativity

• other cultures are superior to your own

What text organization is used by Cabeza de Vaca in his Journey Through Texas?

• listing

• problem solution

• cause and effect

• chronological

Reorder the following: The events of John Smith's "General History of Virginia"

• arrive in Jamestown

• Pocahontas saves John Smith from being killed

• Pocahontas regularly visits the fort.

• Smith is made manager of the colony

• He is taken prisoner by natives

Which of the following sentences has the same meaning as the phrase, "they brought such plenty of their fruits and provision as no man wanted?"

• they brought enough food for everyone

• nobody wanted the food they brought

• they brought only the things that they did not want

• all of the men ate too much of the fruits and other food

In "Of Plymouth Plantation," What was the name of the man that fell over board, but he was able to be saved when he caught hold of a rope and was pulled back onto the ship?

"Sinners in the hands of an Angry God" takes place during what literary era?

• The Modern Age

• The Renaissance

• The Medieval Period

• The Great Awakening

What era is the "Speech in the Virginia Convention" written?

• The Modernist era

• The Enlightenment

• The Romantic Period

• The Naturalism era