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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 do the author and her neighbors call the one gas station in her community, according to the narrative in "Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide"?
(a) The Hilltop 66.
(b) The DC Store.
(c) The Bazaar.
(d) The Pompey Mall.

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

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

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

5. What bacteria is referred to as "the nitrogen fixers" among bean roots in "The Three Sisters"?
(a) Rhizoibum.
(b) Amylase.
(c) Mycorrhizae.
(d) Nuphar lutea.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes a lichen in "Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World" as being not one being but two. What are these beings?

2. 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?

3. What is the scientific name of the belted kingfisher?

4. Where was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School located?

5. What word refers to the sacred tobacco among the author's people?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What are the Three Sisters?

8. What does domesticity in plants mean?

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

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

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