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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the author's people's word for cedar?
(a) Kizhig.
(b) Puhpowee.
(c) Makaks.
(d) Zhawanong.

2. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's belly after she was buried in the earth?
(a) Beans.
(b) Corn.
(c) Onions.
(d) Squash.

3. Where was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School located?
(a) Pennsyvania.
(b) Texas.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Connecticut.

4. In the author's metaphor for the Three Sisters as an emerging relationship between Western science and indigenous knowledge, the bean signifies what?
(a) Science.
(b) Traditional knowledge.
(c) Community.
(d) Spirit.

5. What biologist called ecology "the subversive science" (259)?
(a) Paula Gunn Allen.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

6. What does the author describe the granite as in the Adirondack landscape in "Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World"?
(a) Juglandaceae.
(b) Rhizoibum.
(c) Mycorrhizae.
(d) Anorthosite.

7. What were the three seeds in the corn leaf pouch that were given to the author in "The Three Sisters"?
(a) Sweetgrass, potatoes, and corn.
(b) Beans, squash, and onions.
(c) Tobacco, chives, and beans.
(d) Corn, beans, and squash.

8. What is sweetgrass called in the Mohawk language?
(a) Wiingaashk.
(b) Wenserakon ohonte.
(c) Ode'mini-giizis.
(d) Zizibaskwet Giizis.

9. What is Lionel's profession, as detailed in "The Honorable Harvest"?
(a) He is a farmer.
(b) He is a miner.
(c) He is a dentist.
(d) He is a trapper.

10. Who wrote The Mishomis Book?
(a) Bruce King.
(b) Eddie Benton-Banais.
(c) Awiakta.
(d) Tom Touchet.

11. What word do the author's people use to mean East?
(a) Wiingaashk.
(b) Makaks.
(c) Wabunong.
(d) Nanabozho.

12. In the author's metaphor for the Three Sisters as an emerging relationship between Western science and indigenous knowledge, the corn signifies what?
(a) Science.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Community.
(d) Traditional ecological knowledge.

13. What is referred to as the "bellybutton" of bean pods in "The Three Sisters" (164)?
(a) The hilum.
(b) The milium.
(c) The amylase.
(d) The rhizoibum.

14. The author describes a lichen in "Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World" as being not one being but two. What are these beings?
(a) A fungus and a plant.
(b) A fungus and an alga.
(c) A plant and an alga.
(d) A plant and an animal.

15. From where was the emerald ash borer introduced?
(a) Japan.
(b) England.
(c) China.
(d) Newfoundland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Among "The Three Sisters," who is the firstborn?

2. What is left as a reciprocating gift when an ash tree is chosen to be cut down by the author's native people?

3. What does the author describe finding in the soil as she planted sweetgrass in "Putting Down Roots"?

4. What adjective refers to the instance when an organism's water content changes with the moisture in the surrounding environment?

5. What is the Potawatomi word for sage?

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