ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following brings about the death of Coyote’s cow?
A
anger
B
greed
C
revenge
D
desperation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cleverness causes him to call magic to grow trees that keep the buffalo away. Violence causes him to kill all of the buffalo that come to the area along the Swah-netk’-qhu. Greed makes him disregard Buffalo Bull’s instructions, and Buffalo Bull distrusts him.

Detailed explanation-2: -He spares Coyote’s life because Coyote makes a new set of horns that Buffalo uses to defeat the animal that killed him and stole his herd. Buffalo gives Coyote a cow as payment, telling him that she will provide food for him as long as he does not kill her.

Detailed explanation-3: -CMarie Fuhrman encounters a coyote whose leg is caught in a trap in the southern Montana prairie. As she decides what to do, she navigates the two legacies of her identity-Native and European. In doing so, she considers what it means to be trapped and what it means to be free.

Detailed explanation-4: -COYOTE & BUFFALO: Why does Coyote act as he does when he finds Buffalo Bull’s skull? He wants revenge for the times that Buffalo Bull scared him and made him run.

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