The Native American Voice: Mastery Test

Who is the featured character in an earth diver story?

A. a character who dives into water and brings up a small amount of mud or sand

Which three sentences in the passage best show the author's belief that Plymouth Colony's fate was guided by divine Providence? And of these in the time of most distress, there was but 6 or 7 sound persons, who, to their great commendations be it spoken, spared no pains, night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their beds, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them; in a word, did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren...

And of these in the time of most distress... Yet the Lord so upheld these persons, as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness, or lameness. And I doubt not but their recompense is with the Lord.

Which of the following lines from "How the Spaniards Came to Shung-opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission" best shows the narrator's point of view that the Spaniards were trying to change the religion of the Hopi peoples?

C. "When this mission was finally built, all the people in the village had to come there to worship, and those who did not come were punished severely."

Who might be the main characters in a world parents type of creation story?

C. the sky and the earth

____ stories tell how Earth was created from a vast expanse of water.

Earth Diver