Question

Read the passage from "The Raven and the First Men: The Beginnings of the Haida.” Once away from the Sky Chief, Raven released the Sun from its confinement. Light shone across the entire earth, illuminating mountains, rivers, and oceans. Raven no longer had to fly through the dark. But in Raven’s travels, he saw that there was no one to take care of the earth. He landed on a beach and stopped to think about how to solve this problem. Read the passage from "The Maori: Genealogies and Origins in New Zealand.” In a rage, Tû opened his mouth and ate his brothers to punish them for their cowardice. Tû’s descendants became the Mâori, the humans who are able to master anything that they decide to conquer: the forest, the sea, the food, and the earth. Only Tawhiri escapes Tû’s wrath, and still today the Mâori battle against the hurricanes he sends from above. What similarity between the two myths do these passages illustrate? Both cultures thought sunlight was important. Both cultures thought courage was important. Both cultures thought winning was important. Both cultures thought nature was important.

Answer 1

Answer:

Option D. The similarity between the two myths' passages is that both cultures thought nature was important.

Explanation:

In both passages, one from the myth "The Raven and the First Men: The Beginnings of the Haida", and the other from the myth "The Maori: Genealogies and Origins in New Zealand" the main message they convey is that both cultures thought nature was important. In The Raven myth, nature is what is at risk when the Sky Chief decides to take all the Sun from it, and once it releases it back, every natural aspect of Earth starts to be illuminated again. The message is how important it is for the culture to have a prosperous natural environment. In the other myth, the message is the same as it conveys how the Maori people are a powerful culture thanks to the fact that they know how to conquer their natural environment and to, to some extent, control it.

Answer 2

D - both cultures thought that nature was important.

Both passages use nature to explain the world: Passage A uses the Raven and Passage B uses hurricanes.