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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 did Sa tell Alatangana to do with his children?
(a) Have the white children only marry white and the black only marry black.
(b) Send a child to every different part of the world.
(c) Have the children write down their words for all of mankind.
(d) Bring half of his children to Sa to raise.

2. What is the name of the great mass inside the egg?
(a) It is called Nothing.
(b) It is called Phan Ku.
(c) It is called No Thing.
(d) It is called the Pod.

3. Who did Alatangana turn to for help with his children?
(a) Sa's wife.
(b) Sa.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

4. Why did all of Alatangana's children speak different languages?
(a) Sa had punished Alatangana for taking his daughter away.
(b) Sa's wife spoke many different languages.
(c) They were born in the town of Babel.
(d) They wanted to punish their father for leaving their mother.

5. Where did the Old Man go in his travels?
(a) North America.
(b) Australia.
(c) Africa.
(d) Everywhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Death created?

2. What did Phan Ku use to carve out the world?

3. What did the Old Man discover when he came to visit them each day?

4. What did Quat use to cut a hole in the Night?

5. Where did Alatangana and his wife live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the woman want the Old Man to decide?

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

3. Why was Sa upset when Alatangana married his daughter?

4. What did the man think about the sheep the raven created?

5. What did Alatangana think about Sa's home?

6. Who is the Old Man in chapter five?

7. Why didn't Quat the Fools puppets turn out like his brother's six puppets?

8. What did Phan Ku look like?

9. How were Quat and his brothers created in chapter two?

10. Why might the god in chapter four burst out from an egg?

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