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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Burning Sweetgrass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the third row represent in the author's metaphor for basket weaving in "Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket"?
(a) Community.
(b) The spirit.
(c) Science.
(d) Ecological well-being.

2. What color are the flowers of the witch hazel plant?
(a) White.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

3. What is the scientific family that comprises butternuts, black walnuts, hickories, and pecans?
(a) Hierochloe odorata.
(b) Carya illinoensis.
(c) Pharmacopoeia.
(d) Juglandaceae.

4. According to the Mayan story of Creation, the first humans were shaped of what?
(a) Corn.
(b) Wood.
(c) Mud.
(d) Water.

5. What does "Sha-note" mean in the author's people's language (21)?
(a) Wind blowing through.
(b) Cliff overhanging the ocean.
(c) Trees falling from fire.
(d) River in a gorge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author assert despair is in "The Sacred and the Superfund"?

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

3. Who among the creatures dove first into the watery depths to seek out mud, according to the author in "Skywoman Falling"?

4. What is sweetgrass's favored habitat?

5. "Hydrodictyon" is said to be Latin for what, in "A Mother's Work"?

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