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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 understanding.
(c) A musing.
(d) An arboreal gathering.

3. What color are the flowers of the witch hazel plant?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

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

5. What does the author say "A gift creates" in "The Gift of Strawberries" (38)?
(a) "Eternal indebtedness."
(b) "Ongoing relationship."
(c) "A solution to problems."
(d) "Bitterness."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what grade was the author's daughter when she stopped standing for the Pledge of Allegiance?

2. What word from the Preface refers to a book containing a list of medicinal drugs with their effects and directions for use?

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

4. In what year does the author describe her grandfather gathering pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Skywoman and what is the basic outline of her story?

2. What are some of the significant aspects of the Potawatomi language that the author points out in “Learning the Grammar of Animacy”?

3. Who is Nanabozho? Why is his story important?

4. How does the concept of gift-giving differ between viewpoints of a private property economy and a gift economy?

5. Trace the relocations of the author's ancestors. Where did they originate and where are they now?

6. How is the Thanksgiving Address recited?

7. How does the author discern between a gift and a commodity?

8. Who is described collecting pecans in “The Council of Pecans”? What is the importance of this story?

9. What is the predominant theme in Tending Sweetgrass?

10. What did the author discover when she returned home in "The Consolation of Water Lilies"?

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