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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen gas?
(a) 78%.
(b) 89%.
(c) 56%.
(d) 45%.

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

3. How does the author say trees communicate with each other in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) Via pheromones.
(b) Via whispers.
(c) Via ESP.
(d) Via electrical pulses.

4. Who is described in "Maple Sugar Moon" as "the Anishinaabe Original Man" (79)?
(a) Wiingaashk.
(b) Yawe.
(c) Puhpowee.
(d) Nanabozho.

5. What kind of food did the author's pet ducks take to in the winter, according to her narrative in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Cat food.
(b) Dog food.
(c) Chicken food.
(d) Pig food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author's people's word for cedar?

2. Who are the Keepers of Water among the Potawatomi people?

3. What is the Anishinaabe word for maple?

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)?

5. What does the author say "A gift creates" in "The Gift of Strawberries" (38)?

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