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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Bruce King.
(c) Jeh Johnson.
(d) Johann Goethe.

2. According to the Mayan Creation story, the second humans were shaped of what?
(a) Corn.
(b) Water.
(c) Clay.
(d) Wood.

3. In what grade was the author's daughter when she stopped standing for the Pledge of Allegiance?
(a) Sixth.
(b) Third.
(c) Eleventh.
(d) Second.

4. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's head when she was buried in the earth, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?
(a) Wild strawberries.
(b) Onions.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Sweetgrass.

5. What is the name the author's people use to refer to common plantain plants?
(a) White Man's Problem.
(b) White Man's Footstep.
(c) White Man's Disease.
(d) White Man's Basket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do engineers mix leachate with in order to neutralize its ph value?

2. What American elm does the author describe having been named the champion for its species in "Asters and Goldenrod"?

3. According to the beliefs of the author's people, what does East represent?

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

5. The narrator of "Witch Hazel" says that she first met Hazel Barnett when she was walking the fields where?

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