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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the elder described that spoke of only carrying one bullet with him when he went deer hunting in "The Honorable Harvest"?
(a) Oren.
(b) Lewis.
(c) Bruce.
(d) Awiakta.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the child that Laurie gave birth to while doing her graduate research project on sweetgrass?

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

4. How do Nanabozho's people know time, according to the author in "In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

5. What does the author describe the frest, raw pole bean as tasting like in "Epiphany in the Beans"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Nanabozho's first work, as described in “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

2. Under what types of conditions do black ash trees grow?

3. What uses for cattails did the author teach her students in “Sitting in a Circle"?

4. What did the author discover when she attempted to apply reciprocity when shopping for writing supplies in "The Honorable Harvest"?

5. What is an ideal black ash tree for harvesting for basket making?

6. How did Laurie's advisors respond to her thesis subject in “Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass”?

7. How does the author describe the process of harvesting sweetgrass in the opening of Picking Sweetgrass?

8. How is individuality treated by the author's people? Why is it important?

9. What metaphor does Kimmerer offer for the braiding of a basket in “Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket”?

10. What does the East represent in the Anishinaabe belief system?

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