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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. What is the Anishinaabe new year, or Maple Sugar Moon called, among the author's people?
(a) The Wiingaashk.
(b) The Zizibaskwet Giizis.
(c) The Nanabozho.
(d) The Ode'mini-giizis.

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

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

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

5. What was the name of the child that Laurie gave birth to while doing her graduate research project on sweetgrass?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Celia.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Lilith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe finding in the soil as she planted sweetgrass in "Putting Down Roots"?

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

3. In the author's metaphor for the Three Sisters as an emerging relationship between Western science and indigenous knowledge, the bean signifies what?

4. What is the Potawatomi word for sage?

5. What did Laurie's finding show happened with harvested sweetgrass in her graduate thesis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it important to understand that the earth loves people, according to the author in “Epiphany in the Beans”?

2. What does the South represent symbolically to the Anishinaabe people?

3. Who did Nanabozho meet when he traveled to the West?

4. What are growth rings in trees and how are they formed?

5. Why do polycultures often succeed above monocultures?

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

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

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

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

10. What preconceptions did the author have about Lionel? How were they proven wrong?

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