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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. The author states in "Skywoman Falling" that when her people braid sweetgrass, they are braiding what?
(a) The whiskers of the Lion.
(b) The hair of Mother Earth.
(c) Love, hope, and charity.
(d) The hair of Father Earth.

2. 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) Lewis Hyde.
(c) Thomas Berry.
(d) Oren Lyons.

3. What is the scientific name for the yellow water-lily?
(a) Nuphar lutea.
(b) Solidago canadensis.
(c) Carya illinoensis.
(d) Amylase.

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

5. What is the animate form of "to be," in the author's people's language?
(a) Ode'mini-giizis.
(b) Yawe.
(c) Wiingaashk.
(d) Puhpowee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Along what river does the author describe her grandfather collecting pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?

2. How many times does the author say her ancestors were "removed" in the span of a single generation in "The Council of Pecans" (21)?

3. What is the message taught by the Pecan Council in "The Council of Pecans"?

4. What is said to be the leader of the birds in the Onondaga address in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?

5. Who among the creatures dove first into the watery depths to seek out mud, according to the author in "Skywoman Falling"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do trees communicate?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the predominant theme in Tending Sweetgrass?

8. What is significant about the narrative style in "Witch Hazel"?

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

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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