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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the word used to mean South in the author's native language?
(a) Zhawanong.
(b) Makaks.
(c) Wabunong.
(d) Puhpowee.

2. Who was the Cherokee writer that pressed a corn leaf pouch into the author's hand years ago, according to the narrative in "The Three Sisters"?
(a) Thomas Berry.
(b) Lewis Hyde.
(c) Paula Gunn Allen.
(d) Awiakta.

3. What ecotheologian wrote, "We must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects" (74)?
(a) Thomas Berry.
(b) Lewis Hyde.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Johann Goethe.

4. What song did the author's pre-med students begin singing as they departed camp in "The Sound of Silverbells"?
(a) Awiakta.
(b) Hallelujah.
(c) Amazing Grace.
(d) America the Beautiful.

5. What is the shared currency of Maple Nation, according to the author in "Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide"?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Gold.
(c) Nitrogen.
(d) Oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted Moment in Flight?

2. What is said to be a "radical proposition" in a consumer society in "Allegiance to Gratitude" (136)?

3. When is the time for storytelling, according to the author in "Skywoman Falling"?

4. Who wrote The Mishomis Book?

5. Who wrote in an 1890 treatise that “the colors diametrically opposed to each other . . . are those which reciprocally evoke each other in the eye" (61)?

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