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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whose perspective is "Witch Hazel" narrated?
(a) The author's.
(b) The author's daughter's.
(c) The author's niece's.
(d) Hazel's.

2. What is described in maple trees as "the enzyme responsible for cleaving large molecules of starch stored in the roots into small molecules of sugar" (85)?
(a) Phytochromes.
(b) Juglandaceae.
(c) Mycorrhizae.
(d) Amylase.

3. What color bedroom was among the author's daughters' list of demands for a new home in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Pink.
(d) Purple.

4. 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) Bruce King.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) Lewis Hyde.
(d) Oren Lyons.

5. What did the Mohawk call themselves, meaning "People of the Flint" (304)?
(a) Wabunong.
(b) Zizibaskwet Giizis.
(c) Zhawanong.
(d) Kanienkeha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is left as a reciprocating gift when an ash tree is chosen to be cut down by the author's native people?

2. What word do the author's people use to mean East?

3. What bacteria is referred to as "the nitrogen fixers" among bean roots in "The Three Sisters"?

4. What Swedish botanist does the author reference in "In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

5. What is said to be the leader of the birds in the Onondaga address in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?

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