1. Who is the Onondaga Faithkeeper who told the author, "Of course you should write about it. It’s supposed to be shared, otherwise how can it work? We’ve been waiting five hundred years for people to listen. If they’d understood the Thanksgiving then, we wouldn’t be in this mess" (142)?
(a) Oren Lyons.
(b) Bruce King.
(c) Lewis Hyde.
(d) Thomas Berry.

2. What is the animate form of "to be," in the author's people's language?
(a) Ode'mini-giizis.
(b) Wiingaashk.
(c) Puhpowee.
(d) Yawe.

3. What are the light-absorbing pigments in the photosensors in Maple buds called?
(a) Mycorrhizae.
(b) Hierochloe odorata.
(c) Juglandaceae.
(d) Phytochromes.

4. Who among the creatures dove first into the watery depths to seek out mud, according to the author in "Skywoman Falling"?
(a) Heron.
(b) Seal.
(c) Beaver.
(d) Loon.

5. Upon what creature's back did the woman spread the mud in "Skywoman Falling"?
(a) Turtle's.
(b) Giraffe's.
(c) Clam's.
(d) Elephant's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote in an 1890 treatise that “the colors diametrically opposed to each other . . . are those which reciprocally evoke each other in the eye" (61)?

2. What did the author do for Hazel as a gift at Christmas in "Witch Hazel"?

3. What is the device called that one hammers into a Maple tree in order to tap it?

4. What does appreciation beget, according to the author in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?

5. What were the birch bark boxes that the author's ancestors carried sugar made from sap in called?

(see the answer key)

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