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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. 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) Ursula K. Le Guin.
(d) Bruce King.

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

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

4. What did Laurie's finding show happened with harvested sweetgrass in her graduate thesis?
(a) Harvesting by snapping leaves harms production.
(b) Harvested sweetgrass does not flourish.
(c) Harvested sweetgrass thrives well.
(d) Harvesting by root-pulling destroys sweetgrass populations.

5. The author describes a lichen in "Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World" as being not one being but two. What are these beings?
(a) A fungus and a plant.
(b) A fungus and an alga.
(c) A plant and an animal.
(d) A plant and an alga.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in "Burning Cascade Head," when Salmon first arrived at the river, he was greeted on the shore by whom?

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

3. What is the name the author's people use to refer to common plantain plants?

4. What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen gas?

5. What is the Anishinaabe new year, or Maple Sugar Moon called, among the author's people?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What findings did Laurie's thesis produce in “Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass”?

3. Why is the concept of circular time important in Native American lore?

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

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

6. Why is it important for native peoples to ask for permission when harvesting or hunting? How do they do so?

7. What did Nanabozho learn when his journey took him North?

8. What lessons did Nanabozho learn from the animals, according to the narrative in “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

9. What are the Three Sisters?

10. What does the author remark about White Man's Footstep in “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

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