LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The grizzlies are too powerful
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The grizzlies are magical
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The grizzlies are their ancestors
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: –Because of the story being passed down from generation to generation, the Natives do not kill Grizzly bears they live in harmony with them. When Grizzlies walked upright is a legend from the Modoc tribe retold by Richard Erdoes and Alfonzo Ortiz.
Detailed explanation-2: -He frowned on the old grandmother so sternly that she promptly fell down dead. Then he cursed all the grizzlies: “Get down on your hands and knees. You have wronged me, and from this moment all of you will walk on four feet and never talk again."
Detailed explanation-3: -“When Grizzlies Walked Upright” explains the origins of human beings (first Native Americans).
Detailed explanation-4: -When the leaves dropped from the trees, he picked them up, blew upon them, and so made the birds. Then he took the big end of his giant stick and made all the animals that walked on the earth, the biggest of which were the grizzly bears.
Detailed explanation-5: -In when grizzlies walked upright the sky spirit created man and shaped the world in anger when the bears wronged him.