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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is left as a reciprocating gift when an ash tree is chosen to be cut down by the author's native people?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Beans.
(c) Corn.
(d) Coffee grounds.

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

3. The author states in "Epiphany in the Beans," "In a garden, food arises from" what (151)?
(a) Partnership.
(b) Dedication.
(c) Greed.
(d) Desire.

4. What is the name of the process in a bean shoot in which the vine inscribes a circle in the air?
(a) Eutrophication.
(b) Nuphar lutea.
(c) Amylase.
(d) Circumnutation.

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

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

7. To what clan is Tom Porter a member, according to the author in "Putting Down Roots"?
(a) The Wolf Clan.
(b) The Lion Clan.
(c) The Bear Clan.
(d) The Buffalo Clan.

8. Who is described as the late bloomer of the family in "The Three Sisters"?
(a) Corn.
(b) Squash.
(c) Onions.
(d) Beans.

9. What word refers to the sacred tobacco among the author's people?
(a) Wabunong.
(b) Sema.
(c) Wiingaashk.
(d) Yawe.

10. What did Laurie's finding show happened with harvested sweetgrass in her graduate thesis?
(a) Harvesting by snapping leaves harms production.
(b) Harvesting by root-pulling destroys sweetgrass populations.
(c) Harvested sweetgrass thrives well.
(d) Harvested sweetgrass does not flourish.

11. What is the name the author's people use to refer to common plantain plants?
(a) White Man's Basket.
(b) White Man's Problem.
(c) White Man's Footstep.
(d) White Man's Disease.

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) Spirit.
(b) Science.
(c) Traditional ecological knowledge.
(d) Community.

13. Among "The Three Sisters," who is the firstborn?
(a) Beans.
(b) Corn.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Squash.

14. When does the author describe "a tsunami of disease" sweeping the Oregon coast in "Burning Cascade Head" (293)?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1880s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1830s.

15. What direction does a doorway always face in indigenous homes, according to the author in "Sitting in a Circle"?
(a) East.
(b) West.
(c) South.
(d) North.

Short Answer Questions

1. What grew from the hair of Skywoman's daughter, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?

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

3. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's head when she was buried in the earth, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?

4. What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen gas?

5. What is the Anishinaabe word for maple?

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