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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's head when she was buried in the earth, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?
(a) Wild strawberries.
(b) Sweetgrass.
(c) Onions.
(d) Tobacco.

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

3. What grew from the breasts of Skywoman's daughter, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?
(a) Beans.
(b) Squash.
(c) Corn.
(d) Sweetgrass.

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does the author describe finding in the soil as she planted sweetgrass in "Putting Down Roots"?
(a) A wolf tooth.
(b) A diamond.
(c) A piece of amber.
(d) A daisy.

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

13. 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.

14. Scientists have discovered an enzyme in the saliva of what animal that stimulates grass growth?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Deer.
(c) Buffalo.
(d) Cows.

15. What grew from the heart of Skywoman's daughter, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Cedar trees.
(c) Sweetgrass.
(d) Strawberries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does South represent to the author's people?

2. What does the second row represent in the author's metaphor for basket weaving in "Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket"?

3. Who gave Nanabozho the shape for his canoe, according to the narrative in "In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

4. What is the "fragile layer of cells that lies between the bark and the newest wood" on a tree called (172)?

5. Beginning in what year did the U.S. Forest Service and partner organizations led by Oregon State University initiate a restoration project for the estuary at the Salmon River in Oregon?

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