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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the names of Hazel's children, according to the narrator in "Witch Hazel"?
(a) Emily and Peter.
(b) Sarah and John.
(c) James and Sally.
(d) Sam and Janie.

3. 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) 2.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

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

5. What is the scientific name of the common plantain?
(a) Plantago major.
(b) Carya illinoensis.
(c) Hierochloe odorata.
(d) Juglandaceae.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective refers to the instance when an organism's water content changes with the moisture in the surrounding environment?

2. Where was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School located?

3. What is sweetgrass's favored habitat?

4. How do Nanabozho's people know time, according to the author in "In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

5. 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)?

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