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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 word from the author's people means "the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight" (65)?
(a) Ode'mini-giizis.
(b) Puhpowee.
(c) Wiingaashk.
(d) Yawe.

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

3. In what year does the author describe her grandfather gathering pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1818.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the teachings of the Onondaga people, leadership is rooted not in power and authority but in what?

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

3. What is said to be a "radical proposition" in a consumer society in "Allegiance to Gratitude" (136)?

4. 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)?

5. What is the name of the Strawberry Moon in the author's people's language?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do wild strawberries symbolize for the author?

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

5. How did the author go about making maple syrup with her daughters?

6. What is one of the significant morals of the Skywoman story?

7. How is the Thanksgiving Address recited?

8. What does witch hazel symbolize in the narrative?

9. How is Hazel described? How did the author come to know her?

10. What morning ritual does the author describe her father performing in "An Offering"?

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