The Iroquois Creation Myth: "The World on Turtle's Back" - Quiz Quiz

Question 1

According to "The World on Turtle's Back," which best demonstrates the Iroquois view of women?

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B: Women were respected because they helped create and sustain the world.

Question 2

Which sentence from "The World on Turtle's Back" best illustrates why the story is considered a creation myth?

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C: The woman placed the dirt on Turtle’s back and performed a ritual to create the earth.

Question 3

Read this excerpt from "The World on Turtle's Back." The conflict between the twins continued, and for some reason, the grandmother favored the left-handed twin. The right-handed twin became angry and resentful. He was the truthful twin who always did the right thing. The left-handed twin was deceitful and did everything backward. You could never trust him. The twins represented the two ways of the world which are in all people. The Indians did not call these good and evil. They called them the straight mind and the crooked mind, the righteous man and the devious man, the right and the left. The main purpose of this excerpt is to

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A: clarify what the Iroquois considered the two different sides of human nature.

Question 4

Based on "The World on Turtle's Back," which statement best describes the Iroquois attitude toward nature and the environment?

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B: The Iroquois revered nature and valued the plants and animals that sustained them.

Question 5

The conflict between the right-handed brother and left-handed brother described in "The World on Turtle's Back" shows that the Iroquois most likely believed

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A: there is an eternal battle between good and evil.

Question 6

Read this excerpt from "The World on Turtle's Back." The animals thought that perhaps there was dirt at the depths of the ocean, but they had never tried to reach the bottom before. One by one they tried to swim down, but their attempts were futile. Finally, the muskrat disappeared into the cold depth of the ocean. After a lengthy amount of time, he drifted to the surface with a tiny speck of earth in his hand. He appeared to be dead, but the animals prayed and chanted, and finally he stirred. The Earth-Diver was successful in bringing forth the soil to make the earth grow. Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the idea that the muskrat was willing to sacrifice himself for the good of all?

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B: After a lengthy amount of time, he drifted to the surface with a tiny speck of earth in his hand. He appeared to be dead. . . .

Question 7

Read this excerpt from "The World on Turtle's Back." Without knowing it, the right and left-handed twins built balance into the world. The plant-eating animals created by the right-handed twin balanced out the meat-eating animals created by the left-handed twin. And so the world thrived, and this was good. Which statement best describes the purpose of this excerpt?

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B: to explain how balance came to exist in the natural world

Question 8

Read this quotation from "The World on Turtle's Back." The woman placed the dirt on Turtle's back and performed a ritual to create the earth. She walked around the dirt in the direction of the sun until the earth grew large enough. Then she planted the roots from the Great Tree and continued her ritual to keep the earth growing. Like the sun she kept moving around the earth, in the same direction the people still do in dance rituals today. The main purpose of this quotation is to

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D: describe the Iroquois belief of how the Earth was created.

Question 9

Read this excerpt from "The World on Turtle's Back." The right-handed twin accused his brother of murdering their mother and their quarrels continued until it was time to bury their mother. With the help of their grandmother, they made her a grave. From her head grew the three sister plants, corn, beans, and squash. From her heart grew tobacco, which people still use to give thanks in ceremony. She is called “our mother” and the people dance and sing to her to make the plants grow. The excerpt suggests that the Iroquois believed that

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D: sometimes good can come from tragedy.

Question 10

"The World on Turtle's Back" is a creation myth because it

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A: explains how the Iroquois believe that the earth was created.

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