Native American Myth Review

"The Earth on Turtle's Back" shows the importance the Onondaga placed on

• Dreams

• Respect

• Strength in Battle

• Old Age

"The Earth on Turtle's Back" explains the origin of?

• The sky
• The sea
• The earth
• Where animals come from

Who caught the Wife as she was falling?

• The Duck
• The Turtle
• The Muskrat
• Two Swans

How does the earth form in “Earth on the Turtle’s Back”?

• The woman brought dirt with her from

  Sky World and it fell into the ocean causing it to grow.

• The Great Spirit forms it when he steps down from the Sky World and touches the areas he wants to create.

• Land already exists before the woman arrives.

• A muskrat brings up soil from the ocean bottom, and the woman plants the roots in them.

What type of human qualities do the animals exhibit once they respond to the wife of the chief falling down the hole?

• Benevolence

• Kindness

• Generosity

• All of the above.

What is a creation myth?

• A true story about how the world began.

• A false story about how the world began.

• A story told by animals.

• A story told by mystical creatures.

In what form were Native American origin stories recorded and passed along?

• On Wikipedia

• The stories were passed down orally from generation to generation.

• They wrote them down in a great book

• TikTok

In the "When Grizzlies Walked Upright" the story tells the origin of who or what?

• How humans came to be

• How Grizzly bears were made

• Why we have restaraunts

• The origin of Snapchat

In "When Grizzlies Walked Upright," the daughter of the Chief of the Sky Spirits places herself in a dangerous position because she is

• shy

• self-sacrificing

• self-destructive

• curious

What natural occurrence is explained in When Grizzlies Walked Upright?

• volcanoes

• tornados

• hurricanes

• blizzards