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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. Who painted Moment in Flight?
(a) Bruce King.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) Lewis Hyde.
(d) John Singer Sargent.
2. Where did the author grow up?
(a) Northern California.
(b) Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Upstate New York.
3. Who is described as "our oldest Grandmother" in the Onondaga address?
(a) The Sun.
(b) The Stars.
(c) The Moon.
(d) The Earth.
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)?
(a) Bruce King.
(b) Jeh Johnson.
(c) Johann Goethe.
(d) Lewis Hyde.
5. From whose perspective is "Witch Hazel" narrated?
(a) The author's daughter's.
(b) The author's.
(c) Hazel's.
(d) The author's niece's.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does "Sha-note" mean in the author's people's language (21)?
2. What does the true name Tahawus mean among the Potawatomi people?
3. What is the name of the author's youngest daughter?
4. For how long does the author say the commodity economy has been here on Turtle Island in "The Gift of Strawberries"?
5. What is the address called that the children recite at the Onondaga school described by the author in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is significant about the narrative style in "Witch Hazel"?
2. What is the narrative dedicated to in "A Mother's Work"?
3. How does the author discern between a gift and a commodity?
4. What is significant about the production of harvests among pecan trees?
5. What did the author discover when she returned home in "The Consolation of Water Lilies"?
6. How does the author describe sweetgrass in relation to gifts?
7. How do trees communicate?
8. Trace the relocations of the author's ancestors. Where did they originate and where are they now?
9. What is the predominant theme in Tending Sweetgrass?
10. How did the U.S. government go about enlisting Native American children in schools aimed at assimilation? What were the impacts of this process?
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