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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "fragile layer of cells that lies between the bark and the newest wood" on a tree called (172)?
(a) The rhizoibum.
(b) The cambium.
(c) The hilum.
(d) The milium.

2. What term refers to fields with many species of plants?
(a) Bicultures.
(b) Omnicultures.
(c) Polycultures.
(d) Agricultures.

3. Who was the great teacher of Anishinaabe lore that over-fished a lake, according to the story related by the author in "The Honorable Harvest"?
(a) Yawe.
(b) Nanabozho.
(c) Makaks.
(d) Puhpowee.

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

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

6. What adjective refers to the instance when an organism's water content changes with the moisture in the surrounding environment?
(a) Rhizoibum.
(b) Poikilohydric.
(c) Juglandaceae.
(d) Pharmacopoeia.

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

8. 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"?
(a) Thomas Berry.
(b) Lewis Hyde.
(c) Awiakta.
(d) Paula Gunn Allen.

9. What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen gas?
(a) 56%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 78%.
(d) 89%.

10. 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.

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

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

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

14. What was the name of the author's grandfather?
(a) Bruce King.
(b) Asa Wall.
(c) Lewis Hyde.
(d) Oren Lyons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Scientists have discovered an enzyme in the saliva of what animal that stimulates grass growth?

2. What is the author's people's word for cedar?

3. In her metaphor for basket weaving in "Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket," the author says "we need to pay attention to the lessons of the three rows" (183). What does the first row represent?

4. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's belly after she was buried in the earth?

5. What is the word used to mean South in the author's native language?

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