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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the scientific name for the yellow water-lily?
2. Where did the author go kayaking after seeing off her youngest daughter to college in "The Consolation of Water Lilies"?
3. The narrator of "Witch Hazel" says that she first met Hazel Barnett when she was walking the fields where?
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 address called that the children recite at the Onondaga school described by the author in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the narrative style in Braiding Sweetgrass. Why is this narrative perspective important?
2. How is Hazel described? How did the author come to know her?
3. What is the predominant theme in Tending Sweetgrass?
4. What are some of the significant aspects of the Potawatomi language that the author points out in “Learning the Grammar of Animacy”?
5. What is the central theme in "The Consolation of Water Lilies"? How is this theme evoked?
6. What do wild strawberries symbolize for the author?
7. Who is Nanabozho? Why is his story important?
8. How does the Pledge of Allegiance differ from the Thanksgiving Address?
9. How does the author describe sweetgrass in relation to gifts?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the story of Skywoman and how this Creation story influences Native American actions, culture, and traditions. How does the Skywoman story differ from the story of Genesis in the Judeo-Christian Creation story? How are these differences reflected in our societies? What does Skywoman represent?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the concept of despair. Why is despair a negative emotion, according to the author? What should replace despair? How do we go about recovering from despair in relation to the environment and climate change?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the themes of immigration and naturalization among humans, plants, and animals in Braiding Sweetgrass. What does immigration mean in this regard? What does naturalization mean? In whose footsteps should we follow? Why?
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