English Midterm (Ichino) 383 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

to the settlers, the new land was _ & _ correct answer: Developing and iften frightening mystery To the Native American the land was ______ & _______ correct answer: Beloved and well know The colonists believed the land belonged to the ______ especially to their ________ correct answer: People European monarchs The Native American songs and legends showed the connection between correct answer: People and nature Religious figures portrayed the wilderness as an correct answer: Evil place Early American themes correct answer: Wilderness (nature) Community & independence Individualism & self-reliance What is uniquely American about those these correct answer: The place The past The vision Role of Early American writer a correct answer: Writers as Oral Poet and Historian Writer as Preacher and Lawmaker Writer as Autobiographer Oral tradition correct answer: Narratives handed down through many generations by word of mouth and only recorded in detail within the last hundred years examples of oral tradition correct answer: myths, folktales, legends, songs, fables, parables Oral tradition often depicts the connection between ____________ and _______ correct answer: Native Americans Nature Oratory, or public speaking correct answer: Was important part of the oral tradition of Native Americans origin myth correct answer: a traditional story that explains how life began Origin myths often explain correct answer: feature of the world was formed or how a specific social custom began Archetypes correct answer: Symbols, patterns, or characters types that repeat across cultures Exploration Narratives correct answer: The Europeans who first came to the Americas related their experiences with couch firsthand accounts of their travels. Exploration Narratives accounts generally provide correct answer: information in chronological order, describing events in order European Explores believed there was money (gold) to be made in correct answer: America The European Explores faced great hardships arriving in the new land because correct answer: They did not know the land and did not have food How did the Native Americans asides the early Europeans correct answer: By teaching them how to build adequate shelter and how to cultivate crops The Earth if Turtle's Back is a myth from the Onondaga people that relates a story about correct answer: The creation of the world In this version, Earth grows, with the help of an amiable, between the water and a place called Skyland correct answer: The Earth on Turtles Back ( the earth on turtles back) The Onondaga believe that dreams are correct answer: powerful, influential messages that must be obeyed ( the Earth on turtles back) what dream did the chiefs wife have correct answer: That she saw the Great Tree uprooted ( the Earth on turtles back) what is the name of the place where there was a great and beautiful tree correct answer: Skyland ( the Earth on turtles back) the Great Tree had correct answer: Four white roots which stretched to each of the sacred directions and from its branches all kinds of fruits and flowers grew ( The Navajo Origin Legend) it tells how the first Navajo man and women were created from correct answer: Wind and ears of corn ( the Navajo Origin Legend) the wind represents ______ and idea reflected in the fact that ___________ correct answer: Life Human begins breathe to survive ( the Navajo Origin Legend) the legend illuminates the Navajo belief in the _______________ as well as the importantes of __________ a