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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Onondaga Faithkeeper who told the author, "Of course you should write about it. It’s supposed to be shared, otherwise how can it work? We’ve been waiting five hundred years for people to listen. If they’d understood the Thanksgiving then, we wouldn’t be in this mess" (142)?
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) Oren Lyons.
(d) Bruce King.

2. Beginning in what year did the U.S. Forest Service and partner organizations led by Oregon State University initiate a restoration project for the estuary at the Salmon River in Oregon?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1976.

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

4. In what year does the author describe her grandfather gathering pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1895.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is referred to as the "bellybutton" of bean pods in "The Three Sisters" (164)?

2. What is one of the names for the cattail in the Potawatomi language, meaning "we wrap the baby in it" (275)?

3. Who taught Nanabozho to make an ax, according to the narrative in "In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

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

5. What does South represent to the author's people?

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