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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Woodpeckers and Animal Rites.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first exercise called "Beginning the Day" invites the reader to start by visualizing stepping outside and being greeted by __________.
(a) A loved one.
(b) Themselves.
(c) A bear.
(d) Nature.

2. Not surprisingly, this bird is linked to the power of song and of voice.
(a) Hawk.
(b) Blackbird.
(c) Canary.
(d) Owl.

3. The most important way to begin to cultivate the tool of animal speak is to make sure the person is ___________ himself with nature.
(a) Fighting.
(b) Aligning.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Cleaning.

4. _________ are a symbol of rising from the terrestrial world, of being free of the gravity of the mundane world.
(a) Masks.
(b) Beads.
(c) Paints.
(d) Feathers.

5. In the Greek tradition, the woodpecker occupied the throne of ___________, considered sacred to this god of thunder.
(a) Hera.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Hermes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Native American tradition, the woodpecker is a bird connected with the ___________ of the Earth itself.

2. What does the author think speaks to us constantly, though a person might not always be listening closely to this communication?

3. What is the landscape which is in constant transition, always changing, always moving?

4. Chickadees travel in _______, reflecting a cheerful sociableness about them, according to the author.

5. The __________ of the woodpecker are what help it to hold itself upright when it is pecking at wood.

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