Question

I have 6 questions please answer correctly (FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ "The Way to Rainy Mountain")

1:In this excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain, the author uses language that depicts the sun as a human.

He was very angry…he threw the ring and it did what he told it to do; it struck the woman and killed her, and then the sun’s child was all alone.

What is the effect of this language?

It develops an atmosphere of chaos.

It creates a peaceful mood.

It supports a friendly tone.

It conveys a tone of fantasy.

2:Read this excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain.

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountain, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood.

What is the effect of the figurative language in this sentence?

It depicts how the author’s grandmother died.

It reveals the manner in which the Kiowa people lived.

It conveys the deep longing Aho had to leave Rainy Mountain.

It shows how Aho kept alive the memory of her people’s history.

3:Read this excerpt from Section III of The Way to Rainy Mountain.

There were always dogs about my grandmother’s house…The old people paid them scarcely any attention, but they should have been sad, I think, to see them go.

What is the effect of the first-person point of view in this excerpt?

Readers get insight into the author’s personal view of the dogs of Kiowa society.

Readers learn the historical connection between dogs and other tribes.

Readers gain an understanding of how the author’s grandmother felt about dogs.

Readers find out what the origin of the myth of dogs in Kiowa culture is.

4:Read this excerpt from Section III of The Way to Rainy Mountain.

There were always dogs about my grandmother’s house…The old people paid them scarcely any attention, but they should have been sad, I think, to see them go.

What is the effect of the first-person point of view in this excerpt?

Readers get insight into the author’s personal view of the dogs of Kiowa society.

Readers learn the historical connection between dogs and other tribes.

Readers gain an understanding of how the author’s grandmother felt about dogs.

Readers find out what the origin of the myth of dogs in Kiowa culture is.

4:What is the central thread that connects the three parts of Section VIII in The Way to Rainy Mountain?

Sacred incantations help to protect people.

Words enable people to affect their circumstances.

Obedience is a central part of living well.

Kiowa people always show great respect for the dead.

5:The three parts of Section X in The Way to Rainy Mountain talk about the Tai-me.

How does the author use the personal reflection passage to address the topic?

It describes how the Tai-me came into the lives of the Kiowa people.

It gives a personal account of the effect the Tai-me has on the author.

It documents evidence of the part the Tai-me played in the Sun Dance.

It reveals that the author doesn’t believe the Tai-me has power.

6:Read the passage.

excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain
by N. Scott Momaday

The imaginative experience and the historical express equally the traditions of man’s reality. Finally, then, the journey recalled is among other things the revelation of one way in which these traditions are conceived, developed, and interfused in the human mind. There are on the way to Rainy Mountain many landmarks, many journeys in the one.

Which statement explains the author's meaning in this excerpt?

Tracing one's heritage is an important part of life's journey.

There are a lot of different routes to Rainy Mountain in Oklahoma.

People travel to Rainy Mountain from all over the world.

Many different stories are part of the overall Kiowa story.

Answer 1

Q What is the effect of this language?

1. Answer:  

It conveys a tone of fantasy.

Explanation

For Momaday words can inspire emotions, they can create magic, and they are always powerful tools for understanding and shaping reality.

Q. What is the effect of the figurative language in this sentence?

2. Answer

It shows how Aho kept alive the memory of her people’s history.

Explanation

Aho passed down her memories of the Kiowas to Momaday, and, as such, much of Momaday’s knowledge of the tribe comes from her.

Q. What is the effect of the first-person point of view in this excerpt?

3. Answer

Readers get insight into the author’s personal view of the dogs of Kiowa society.

Explanation

It is noticed with the expresion "they should have been sad, I think, to see them go"

Q. What is the central thread that connects the three parts of Section VIII in The Way to Rainy Mountain?

4. Answer:

Kiowa people always show great respect for the dead.

Explanation

In direct contrast to the last segment, this one has a wholeness to it that pulls together a number of textual elements. The author references his dead grandmother (Aho), calls her by name immediately after giving the information that historically Kiowas did not call dead people by name.

Q. How does the author use the personal reflection passage to address the topic?

5. Answer:

It gives a personal account of the effect the Tai-me has on the author.

Explanation

Here, as in some earlier segments, the fluidity of the three voices is apparent. The legend of the acquisition of Tai-me is told in the ancestral voice; the object is described in the historical voice. The final voice, the personal, tells of the author's sole interaction with the figure. In all three, Tai-me is at the center. This is reflected in the book's structure: this segment occurs near the middle of the book.

Q. Which statement explains the author's meaning in this excerpt?

6. Answer:

Many different stories are part of the overall Kiowa story.

Explanation

The Way to Rainy Mountain is a history of the Kiowa people, but it’s a nontraditional history; it takes the kind of written “factual” history to which Euro-American culture is accustomed and blends it with tribal lore and personal recollection.

Answer 2

Answer:

1. It conveys a tone of fantasy.

2. It shows how Aho kept alive the memory of her people’s history.

3. Readers get insight into the author’s personal view of the dogs of Kiowa society.

4. Kiowa people always show great respect for the dead.

5. It gives a personal account of the effect the Tai-me has on the author.

6. Many different stories are part of the overall Kiowa story.

Explanation:

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