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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in "Skywoman Falling," sweetgrass is one of how many sacred plants of her people?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

2. What is described in maple trees as "the enzyme responsible for cleaving large molecules of starch stored in the roots into small molecules of sugar" (85)?
(a) Juglandaceae.
(b) Phytochromes.
(c) Amylase.
(d) Mycorrhizae.

3. What were the names of Skywoman's daughter's twins, whom she gave birth to before dying, according to the author in "The Gift of Strawberries"?
(a) Heron and Flax.
(b) Flint and Sapling.
(c) Swallow and Thrush.
(d) Rose and Daisy.

4. What is the message taught by the Pecan Council in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) There is strength in unity.
(b) The Windigo is all-powerful.
(c) War is sometimes necessary.
(d) There is strength in solitude.

5. Where does the author describe going to an agate beach with her daughter Linden in "The Consolation of Water Lilies"?
(a) Patrick's Point.
(b) Cape May.
(c) Marsha's Vineyard.
(d) Cape Cod.

6. The word "ecology" is derived from what Greek word?
(a) Dinosaur.
(b) Oikos.
(c) Galaxy.
(d) Kroikos.

7. What is said to be the leader of the birds in the Onondaga address in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?
(a) The raven.
(b) The eagle.
(c) The chickadee.
(d) The hawk.

8. What is the device called that one hammers into a Maple tree in order to tap it?
(a) Stake.
(b) Sloke.
(c) Spike.
(d) Spile.

9. What is the name of the Strawberry Moon in the author's people's language?
(a) Ode'mini-giizis.
(b) Yawe.
(c) Wiingaashk.
(d) Puhpowee.

10. Along what river does the author describe her grandfather collecting pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) The Ottawa River.
(b) The Arkansas River.
(c) The Canadian River.
(d) The Niagara River.

11. In what small village is Evon Peter a Chief in northeastern Alaska?
(a) Sitka.
(b) Arctic Village.
(c) Homer.
(d) Wasilla.

12. Who wrote the book Grandmothers of the Light?
(a) Bruce King.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) Paula Gunn Allen.
(d) Johann Goethe.

13. 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) Thomas Berry.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Lewis Hyde.

14. Where did the author grow up?
(a) Northern California.
(b) Upstate New York.
(c) Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
(d) Kentucky.

15. What does the author say the word for sweetgrass is in her people's language in the Preface?
(a) Puhpowee.
(b) Wiingaashk.
(c) Ode'mini-giizis.
(d) Yawe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author go kayaking after seeing off her youngest daughter to college in "The Consolation of Water Lilies"?

2. Who is described as "our oldest Grandmother" in the Onondaga address?

3. What does the author say she should call it when writers go walking the forests and fields looking for plants in "Asters and Goldenrod"?

4. Tahawus is the Algonquin name for what mountain, according to the author in "An Offering"?

5. From whose perspective is "Witch Hazel" narrated?

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