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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grew from the hair of Skywoman's daughter, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?
(a) Sweetgrass.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Onions.
(d) Daisies.

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

3. What song did the author's pre-med students begin singing as they departed camp in "The Sound of Silverbells"?
(a) America the Beautiful.
(b) Amazing Grace.
(c) Awiakta.
(d) Hallelujah.

4. 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) Community.
(c) Traditional ecological knowledge.
(d) Science.

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

6. What is the scientific name of the cattail plant?
(a) Typha latifolia.
(b) Carya illinoensis.
(c) Hierochloe odorata.
(d) Solidago canadensis.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

12. According to the author in "Burning Cascade Head," when Salmon first arrived at the river, he was greeted on the shore by whom?
(a) Wiingaashk.
(b) Skunk Cabbage.
(c) The Three Sisters.
(d) The Fire Master.

13. To whom is the following quote attributed in "Burning Cascade Head"? "“The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast" (288).
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Paula Gunn Allen.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Ursula K. Le Guin.

14. According to the beliefs of the author's people, what does East represent?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Love.
(c) Community.
(d) Sorrow.

15. Who is the author's graduate student that assisted her in investigating the decline of black ash trees in New York, according to the narrative in "Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket"?
(a) Tom Touchet.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Oren Lyons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bacteria is referred to as "the nitrogen fixers" among bean roots in "The Three Sisters"?

2. Who was the Cherokee writer that pressed a corn leaf pouch into the author's hand years ago, according to the narrative in "The Three Sisters"?

3. What was the name of the author's grandfather?

4. In what type of environment do black ash trees thrive?

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

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