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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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to describe who created plant- and meat-eating animals
B
to explain that some animals are good and others are evil
C
to explain how balance came to exist in the natural world
D
to describe two different kinds of animals found in the world
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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

A
demonstrate that right-handed people are good and left-handed people are bad.
B
explain why some people do the right thing and others do not.
C
provide the reason why the grandmother favored the left-handed twin.
D
clarify what the Iroquois considered the two different sides of human nature.
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Women were viewed as clumsy and poor at making decisions.
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Women were viewed as helpless without the support of men and animals.
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Women were respected because they helped create and sustain the world.
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Women were worshipped because they were the descendants of a goddess.
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"The World on Turtle's Back" is a creation myth because it

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focuses on characters whom the Iroquois considered "gods."
B
is an Iroquoian story about people and animals who talk to each other.
C
explains how the Iroquois believe that the earth was created.
D
describes Iroquoian social and cultural values.

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