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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Superfund sites line the shore of Onondaga Lake?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

2. What kind of bird's nest did the author find in the willows around her pond in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Raven.
(b) Sparrow.
(c) Yellow warbler.
(d) Barn swallow.

3. What does the author say the word for sweetgrass is in her people's language in the Preface?
(a) Yawe.
(b) Ode'mini-giizis.
(c) Wiingaashk.
(d) Puhpowee.

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

5. According to the Mayan story of Creation, the first humans were shaped of what?
(a) Wood.
(b) Water.
(c) Mud.
(d) Corn.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was fishing banned in Onondaga Lake?

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

3. What is the device called that one hammers into a Maple tree in order to tap it?

4. What company was the successor to Allied Chemical?

5. Who is described as the late bloomer of the family in "The Three Sisters"?

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