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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author describe hanging from a cottonwood near that Onongada Lake in "The Sacred and the Superfund"?
(a) A human body.
(b) A bathrobe.
(c) A tomahawk.
(d) A sweetgrass braid.

2. What does the author describe in "The Council of Pecans" as "fungal strands that inhabit tree roots" (30)?
(a) Carya illinoensis.
(b) Mycorrhizae.
(c) Pharmacopoeia.
(d) Juglandaceae.

3. What did Laurie's finding show happened with harvested sweetgrass in her graduate thesis?
(a) Harvested sweetgrass thrives well.
(b) Harvesting by snapping leaves harms production.
(c) Harvesting by root-pulling destroys sweetgrass populations.
(d) Harvested sweetgrass does not flourish.

4. What does the author assert despair is in "The Sacred and the Superfund"?
(a) Communal.
(b) Natural.
(c) Paralysis.
(d) Productive.

5. What is the Anishinaabe new year, or Maple Sugar Moon called, among the author's people?
(a) The Ode'mini-giizis.
(b) The Nanabozho.
(c) The Zizibaskwet Giizis.
(d) The Wiingaashk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is sweetgrass called in the Mohawk language?

2. What is the role of water, according to the beliefs of the Onondaga people?

3. What does the second row represent in the author's metaphor for basket weaving in "Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket"?

4. What were the names of Skywoman's daughter's twins, whom she gave birth to before dying, according to the author in "The Gift of Strawberries"?

5. What is sweetgrass's favored habitat?

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