Question 6 • CMS 2025-2026 English I CREDIT RECOVERY
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?
Answer
A
Both cultures thought sunlight was important.
B
Both cultures thought winning was important.
C
Both cultures thought nature was important.
D
Both cultures thought courage was important.
Explanation
Both passages show people closely connected to the natural world. In the Raven passage, sunlight illuminates the earth’s mountains, rivers, and oceans, and Raven worries about who will care for the earth. In the Māori passage, humans master the forest, sea, food, and earth, while facing hurricanes. This makes “Both cultures thought nature was important” the best answer; sunlight is mentioned only in the first passage.
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