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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Planting Sweetgrass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who stated that “objects . . . will remain plentiful because they are treated as gifts" (43)?
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) Johann Goethe.
(d) Bruce King.

2. What does the author say she should call it when writers go walking the forests and fields looking for plants in "Asters and Goldenrod"?
(a) A metaphoray.
(b) An arboreal gathering.
(c) A musing.
(d) An arboreal understanding.

3. From where were the author's ancestors first removed from their land, according to the narrative in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) Caifornia.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Oregon.
(d) New Mexico.

4. For how long does the author say the commodity economy has been here on Turtle Island in "The Gift of Strawberries"?
(a) 600 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 200 years.
(d) 400 years.

5. Who painted Moment in Flight?
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) John Singer Sargent.
(d) Bruce King.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in "The Gift of Strawberries," "Gifts exist in a realm of" what (35)?

2. What was Sha-note renamed?

3. According to the author in "Skywoman Falling," sweetgrass is one of how many sacred plants of her people?

4. What ecotheologian wrote, "We must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects" (74)?

5. What gathering in Oklahoma does the author describe as "an antidote to the divide-and-conquer strategy that was used to separate our people from each other and from our homelands" (31)?

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