Question

A) How did ancient cultures pass down their beliefs and traditions? (1 point)
through ancestry
with stories
through insight
with attitudes
A) What can be learned about the Yaqui culture from the folktale? (1 point)
which animals they worshiped
what they believed
what they stole from the gods
how they felt about weather

Question 3
Question 4
A) How does the folktale show that the Yaqui respected animals? (1 point)
They credited animals with bringing light to the world.
They included animals at their council meetings.
They explained how animals offered to help find fire.
They used animals as the main characters in their stories.
A) What are the shared principles that guide the way of life in a community? (1 point)
cultural values
women's work
old tales
planting rituals

Question 5

A)
Use the story to answer the question.
The Signs of Corn
When corn is to be planted by the Indians, it is the work of the women folk to see to the sorting and cleaning of the best seed. It is
also the women's work to see to the planting. (This was in olden times.)
After the best seed has been selected, the planter measures the corn, lays down a layer of hay, then a layer of corn. Over this corn
they sprinkle warm water and cover it with another layer of hay, then bind hay about the bundle and hang it up in a spot where the
warm rays of the sun can strike it.
While the corn is hanging in the sun, the ground is being prepared to receive it. Having finished the task of preparing the ground, the
woman takes down her seed corn, which has by this time sprouted. Then she proceeds to plant the corn.
Before she plants the first hill, she extends her hoe heavenwards and asks the Great Spirit to bless her work, that she may have a
good yield. After her prayer she takes four kernels and plants one at the north, one at the south, one at the east and one at the west
sides of the first hill. This is asking the Great Spirit to give summer rain and sunshine to bring forth a good crop.
For different growths of the corn, the women have an interpretation as to the character of the one who planted it.
1st. Where the corn grows in straight rows and the cob is full of kernels to the end, this signifies that the planter of this corn is of an
exemplary character, and is very truthful and thoughtful.
2nd. If the rows on the ears of corn are irregular and broken, the planter is considered careless and unthoughtful. Also disorderly
and slovenly about her house and person.
3rd. When an ear of corn bears a few scattering kernels with spaces producing no corn, it is said that is a good sign that the planter
will live to a ripe old age. So old will they be that like the corn, their teeth will be few and far between.
4th. When a stalk bears a great many nubbins, or small ears growing around the large one, it is a sign that the planter is from a
large and respectable family.

After the corn is gathered, it is boiled into sweet corn and made into hominy; parched and mixed with buffalo tallow and rolled into
round balls, and used at feasts, or carried by the warriors on the warpath as food.
When there has been a good crop of corn, an ear is always tied at the top of the medicine pole, of the sun dance, in thanks to the
Great Spirit for his goodness to them in sending a bountiful crop.
Why did the Sioux have a sun dance?
(1 point)
to thank the women
to celebrate the harvest
to feast on corn
to please the Great Spirit

Answer 1

1) with stories

2) what they believed

3) They explained how animals offered to help find fire.

4) cultural values

5) to please the Great Spirit