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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word do the author's people use to mean East?
(a) Wabunong.
(b) Nanabozho.
(c) Makaks.
(d) Wiingaashk.

2. What does South represent to the author's people?
(a) Birth and growth.
(b) Ancient knowledge.
(c) Community.
(d) Death and grief.

3. Among "The Three Sisters," who is the firstborn?
(a) Squash.
(b) Corn.
(c) Beans.
(d) Tobacco.

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

5. How many weeks were the author's students required to stay at the Cranberry Lake Biological Station as a graduation requirement, according to her narrative in "Sitting in a Circle"?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the elder described that spoke of only carrying one bullet with him when he went deer hunting in "The Honorable Harvest"?

2. What grew from the hair of Skywoman's daughter, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?

3. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's belly after she was buried in the earth?

4. What does the author describe the granite as in the Adirondack landscape in "Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World"?

5. Scientists have discovered an enzyme in the saliva of what animal that stimulates grass growth?

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