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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of god is the raven?
(a) A sad god.
(b) A lenient god.
(c) A wiley god.
(d) A wrathful god.

2. What were nine of the brothers named after?
(a) Animals.
(b) Seasons.
(c) Tea leaves.
(d) Tree leaves.

3. Where did Alatangana and his wife live?
(a) In the oceans.
(b) Up high on a mountain top.
(c) On a hill next to Sa.
(d) In a far corner of the new earth.

4. What happened to the being once it burst from the egg?
(a) He shrank to a dwarf.
(b) He grew into a giant.
(c) He became an old man.
(d) He turned into a baby.

5. What did Quat make the first men from?
(a) The sky.
(b) A tree.
(c) Dirt.
(d) A river.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created death?

2. What did Sa tell Alatangana to do with his children?

3. When did Quat tell his brothers they should sleep?

4. What does Phan Ku have on his head?

5. Where did the myth in chapter 3 come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Creator look like in chapter one?

2. Why might the Eskimo's contribute the creation of pea-pods, and man, to birds?

3. What is the death rattle, and what effect does it have on people?

4. Where the first men alive?

5. Why did Sa turn down Alatangana's marriage proposal?

6. Where is the story of the Pea Pod Man from?

7. Why did the raven decide to make the bear?

8. Describe Sa's home?

9. What curse did Sa put on Alatangana's children?

10. Quat is the solar god of the Bank Islands. What parts of his story have to do with the sunlight and creation?

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