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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is sweetgrass's favored habitat?
(a) Dry, shady forests.
(b) Sunny, well-watered meadows.
(c) Craggy, rocky mountains with low sunshine.
(d) Lava rock beds and high desert plains.

2. The narrator of "Witch Hazel" says that she first met Hazel Barnett when she was walking the fields where?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Nevada.
(c) Washington.
(d) Tennessee.

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

4. What is the Hiawatha wampum belt the symbol of?
(a) The Odawa Confederacy.
(b) The Haudenosunee Confederacy.
(c) The Yurok Confederacy.
(d) The Winnemem-Wintu Confederacy.

5. What does "Sha-note" mean in the author's people's language (21)?
(a) Trees falling from fire.
(b) Cliff overhanging the ocean.
(c) River in a gorge.
(d) Wind blowing through.

6. 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) Bruce King.
(b) Oren Lyons.
(c) Thomas Berry.
(d) Lewis Hyde.

7. What does "Maple Sugar Moon" translate to in the language of the author's people?
(a) Wiingaashk.
(b) Zizibaskwet Giizis.
(c) Ode'mini-giizis.
(d) Puhpowee.

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

9. 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) Phytochromes.
(b) Mycorrhizae.
(c) Juglandaceae.
(d) Amylase.

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

11. On how many acres did the home sit that the author fell in love with in upstate New York in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

12. What was Sha-note renamed?
(a) Carol.
(b) Carlotta.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Sharon.

13. 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)?
(a) The Morongo Thunder and Lightning Pow Wow.
(b) The Hunting Moon Pow Wow.
(c) The Coushatta Gathering of Nations.
(d) The Potawatomi Gathering of Nations.

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

15. 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) 400 years.
(c) 200 years.
(d) 100 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to "the natural process of nutrient enrichment that comes with age," and what happened to the author's pond in "A Mother's Work"?

2. After how many years does the author say her pond is now nearly swimmable in "A Mother's Work"?

3. "Hydrodictyon" is said to be Latin for what, in "A Mother's Work"?

4. What does the author say "A gift creates" in "The Gift of Strawberries" (38)?

5. What were the names of Hazel's children, according to the narrator in "Witch Hazel"?

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