A. The Earthmaker wanted the opportunity to creat a new race of people
B. Mankind would suffer because of a lack of food if there were more people than resources to care for them
C. Hare wished it to be so and that was how it was
D. Grandmother wished it to be so and that was how it was
Related Mcqs:
- According to the myth, how did frogs loose their teeth ?
A. Frogs used to eat rocks and one day a frog ate a rock that was too hard and smashed its teeth.
B. Frogs never had any teeth.
C. Hare hit a frog with a club and burned the frog and cursed it by declaring it would never be able to harm anyone because it threatedned to hunt the hare down with dogs.
D. Grandmother wanted to eat frog leg stew so she captured a frog and extracted its teeth one by one while chanting a Winnebago song, and since then frogs were without teeth. - According to the myth, which of the following are likely hunting preparation rituals that the Winnebago perform ?
A. Burning tobacco as an offering
B. Singing songs
C. Entering into a trance to commune with the spirits of the natural world.
D. All of the above - What type of myth is the tale “The Jealous Uncle” ?
A. Origin tale
B. Trickster tale
C. Hero tale
D. A fable - Which of the following is not a cultural myth we attribute to those earliest Massachusetts colonial settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts ?
A. Democracy
B. Brother love/charity
C. US Exceptionalism
D. None of the above - In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?
A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.
B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.
C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.
D. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this - The vampire myth is NOT associated with which of the following ?
A. Incest
B. Life rituals with blood
C. The fear of dying
D. The fear of being buried alive - What is the origin of the vampire myth ?
A. Stoker’s “Dracula”
B. Beckford’s “Vathek”
C. Ancient civilizations worldwide
D. Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” - “Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.” In this work the author argues in favour of____________?
A. Communism
B. Revolution
C. An independent nation of independent individuals
D. Abolition - According to most historians, why was it so important for a man to marry a virgin wife ?
A. it assured him that his children were his own
B. it assured him that his wife would carry a dowry with her
C. it assured him that his wife was not a sinner
D. it assured him that her wife would never commit adultery - Why was the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” written ?
A. as a pro- slavery argument
B. the author was a runaway slave
C. as a view point from Canada
D. as propaganda against slavery
