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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is referred to as the "bellybutton" of bean pods in "The Three Sisters" (164)?
(a) The amylase.
(b) The milium.
(c) The hilum.
(d) The rhizoibum.

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

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

4. What gathering in Oklahoma does the author describe as "an antidote to the divide-and-conquer strategy that was used to separate our people from each other and from our homelands" (31)?
(a) The Hunting Moon Pow Wow.
(b) The Potawatomi Gathering of Nations.
(c) The Coushatta Gathering of Nations.
(d) The Morongo Thunder and Lightning Pow Wow.

5. Who taught Nanabozho to make an ax, according to the narrative in "In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?
(a) Bear.
(b) Ox.
(c) Heron.
(d) Beaver.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is the Windigo said to be in "Windigo Footprints"?

2. What did the author do for Hazel as a gift at Christmas in "Witch Hazel"?

3. What naturalist wrote, "There can be no purpose more inspiring than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us" (403)?

4. Who stated that “objects . . . will remain plentiful because they are treated as gifts" (43)?

5. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's head when she was buried in the earth, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?

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