LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Question
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Animals were meant to be used and abused by humans
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They believed animals had spirits equal to humans
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They believed animals existed before anything else
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Critical to their survival, bison not only provided American Indians with food, shelter and tools, but a model on how to live. To American Indians, bison also represent their spirit and remind them of how their lives were once lived, free and in harmony with nature.
Detailed explanation-2: -Coyote is featured in myths of the Chemehuevi, Paiute, Shoshone and Ute peoples. In this region most of the stories feature him as a malevolent and lecherous trickster. However, there are some echoes of his divine role as expressed in the myths of California, in particular obtaining fire for the people.
Detailed explanation-3: -These animals helped to create the Earth: when Sky Woman fell from the the floating island in the sky into the ocean, a giant sea turtle agreed to carry her on his back, and birds gave Sky Woman soil so she could create Earth on the turtle’s back, and plant seeds.
Detailed explanation-4: -The American buffalo or bison is a symbol of abundance and manifestation, and the lesson learned by the Lakota that day is that one does not have to struggle to survive if the right action is joined by the right prayer. The birth of a sacred white buffalo is a sign of hope and an indication of good times to come.