Exam 46: Yellow Woman: Native-American Oral Myth in a Contemporary Context, Leslie Marmon Silko

Because Yellow Woman is lured away by a mysterious figure, Silko's story could be classified under the Aarne-Thompson motif of __________________________.

The activity of the woman that fits the parameters of Proppian complicity is that she ____________________.

"I decided to tell them that some Navajo had kidnapped me." The element of this statement that is apparently false is ____________________________.

Choose the statement that does NOT fit: Yellow Woman fits Joseph Campbell's definition of the quest of the hero because she ______________________________.

We might say that the narrator lives in two worlds, contemporary society and _______________________________________.

Kochinako is the name for the _________________________ story in Silko's tradition.

"[S]omeday they will talk about us, and they will say, 'Those two lived long ago when things like that happened.' " This shows that the narrator is _______________________________.

Like Claude Levi-Strauss, Leslie Marmon Silko believes that storytelling ______________________________.

When the narrator asks Silva if he works for the ranchers and he replies, "I steal from them," he reveals himself as a __________________________ figure.

"I don't have to go. What they tell in the stories was real only then . . . " shows that the narrator _____________________________________.

An example of nature providing help in "Yellow Woman" is ________________________.

In the traditional Yellow Woman story, she returns after a long time, bringing _______________________ with her.

The Navajo man in "Yellow Woman" might be considered a ka'tsina because he _______________________.

When Yellow Woman returns from her walk on the second day, she finds Silva busy ___________________________________.

The man is portrayed as potentially dangerous because he ___________________.

The wilted willow leaves on the river bank where she had first seen Silva are a clue for the reader that _________________________________________.

The fact that her pueblo is just on the other side of the mesa ______________.

When Yellow Woman thinks, "Grandpa . . . would tell them what happened," she is referring to the fact that he _________________________________________.

At first the woman gets up and leaves on horseback. Her next decision is ________________________________.

In the traditional Yellow Woman story, she is gone a long time; in this version, she is away from her family for ________________________________.